Collision of impurities with Bose-Einstein condensates
Anno: 2018
Autori: Lingua F., Lepori L., Minardi F., Penna V., Salasnich L.
Affiliazione autori: [Lingua, F.; Penna, V.] Politecn Torino, Dipartimento Sci Appl & Tecnol, Corso Duca Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Turin, Italy.
[Lingua, F.] Clark Univ, Dept Phys, Worcester, MA 01610 USA.
[Lepori, L.] Univ Aquila, Dipartimento Sci Fis & Chim, Via Vetoio, I-67010 Coppito, Italy and INFN, Lab Nazl Gran Sasso, Via Acitelli 22, I-67100 Assergi, Italy.
[Minardi, F.] CNR, INO, Via Giovanni Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy and LENS European Lab Nonlinear Spect, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy and Dipartimento Fis & Astron, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
[Salasnich, L.] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron Galileo Galilei, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy and Univ Padua, CNISM, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy and CNR, INO, Via Giovanni Sansone 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Abstract: Quantum dynamics of impurities in a bath of bosons is a long-standing problem in solid-state, plasma, and atomic physics. Recent experimental and theoretical investigations with ultracold atoms have focused on this problem, studying atomic impurities immersed in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and for various relative coupling strengths tuned by the Fano-Feshbach resonance technique. Here, we report extensive numerical simulations on a closely related problem: the collision between a bosonic impurity consisting of a few (41)Katoms and a BEC of Rb-87 atoms in a quasi one-dimensional configuration and under a weak harmonic axial confinement. For small values of the inter-species interaction strength (regardless of its sign), we find that the impurity, which starts from outside the BEC, simply causes the BEC cloud to oscillate back and forth, but the frequency of oscillation depends on the interaction strength. For intermediate couplings, after a few cycles of oscillation the impurity is captured by the BEC, and strongly changes its amplitude of oscillation. In the strong interaction regime, if the inter-species interaction is attractive, a local maximum (bright soliton) in the BEC density occurs where the impurity is trapped; if, instead, the inter-species interaction is repulsive, the impurity is not able to enter the BEC cloud and the reflection coefficient is close to one. However, if the initial displacement of the impurity is increased, the impurity is able to penetrate the cloud, leading to the appearance of a moving hole (dark soliton) in the BEC.
Giornale/Rivista: NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume: 20 Da Pagina: 045001-1 A: 045001-10
Maggiori informazioni: We thank Giacomo Lamporesi for useful discussions. FM acknowledges funding from FP7 Cooperation STREP Project EQuaM (Grant n. 323714). LS acknowledges Project BIRD164754 of University of Padova for partial support.Parole chiavi: Atoms; Bose-Einstein condensation; Bosons; Phase separation; Quantum theory; Relativity; Solitons; Statistical mechanics, Bose; Bright solitons; Dark solitons; Einstein condensate; Gross-Pitaevskii equation; Species interactions, ImpuritiesDOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aab1aeCitazioni: 10dati da “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) aggiornati al: 2024-04-14Riferimenti tratti da Isi Web of Knowledge: (solo abbonati) Link per visualizzare la scheda su IsiWeb: Clicca quiLink per visualizzare la citazioni su IsiWeb: Clicca qui