No equivalence between hydrodynamic and dispersive mass of the charged polaronWe consider the problem of a charged impurity exerting a weak, slowly decaying force on its surroundings, treating the latter as an ideal compressible fluid. In the semiclassical approximation, the…Krzysztof Myśliwy, Piotr Wysocki, Krzysztof Jachymski·Apr 16, 2025SaveLearn
Experimental Observation of Single- and Multisite Matter-Wave Solitons in an Optical Accordion LatticeWe report the experimental observation of discrete bright matter-wave solitons with attractive interaction in an optical lattice. Using an accordion lattice with adjustable spacing, we prepare a…Robbie Cruickshank, Francesco Lorenzi, Arthur La Rooij et al.·Apr 15, 2025SaveLearn
Floquet realization of prethermal Meissner phase in a two-leg flux ladderWe show that a periodically driven two-leg flux ladder hosting interacting hardcore bosons exhibits a prethermal Meissner phase for large drive amplitudes and at special drive frequencies. Such a…Biswajit Paul, Tapan Mishra, K. Sengupta·Apr 15, 2025SaveLearn
Tunable Molecular Interactions Near an Atomic Feshbach Resonance: Stability and Collapse of a Molecular Bose-Einstein CondensateUnderstanding and controlling interactions of ultracold molecules is a cornerstone of quantum chemistry. While the laboratory creation of degenerate molecular gases comprised of bosonic atoms has…Zhiqiang Wang, Ke Wang, Zhendong Zhang et al.·Apr 12, 2025SaveLearn
Vortices in Tunable Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates with Attractive InteractionsWe investigate the formation of vortices in quasi-two-dimensional dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) through the interplay between two-body contact and long-ranged dipole-dipole interactions…S. Sabari, R. Sasireka, R. Radha et al.·Apr 12, 2025SaveLearn
Imaginary gauge potentials in a non-Hermitian spin-orbit coupled quantum gasIn 1996, Hatano and Nelson proposed a non-Hermitian lattice model containing an imaginary Peierls phase [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 570-573 (1996)], which subsequent analyses revealed to be an instance of a…Junheng Tao, Emmanuel Mercado-Gutierrez, Mingshu Zhao et al.·Apr 11, 2025SaveLearn
Dynamics and fragmentation of bosons in an optical lattice inside a cavity using Wannier and position basesThe atom-cavity system is a versatile platform for emulating light-matter systems and realizing dissipation-induced phases, such as limit cycles (LCs) and time crystals. Here, we study the dynamics…Christopher Gerard R. Sevilla, Jayson G. Cosme·Apr 11, 2025SaveLearn
Finite-temperature real-time properties of magnetic polarons in two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnetsDue to significant progress in quantum gas microscopy in recent years, there is a rapidly growing interest in real-space properties of single mobile dopands created in correlated antiferromagnetic…Toni Guthardt, Markus Scheb, Jan von Delft et al.·Apr 10, 2025SaveLearn
Mott transition in excitonic Bose polaronsFor a neutral system of positive and negative charges, such as atoms in a crystal, increasing the density causes the Mott transition from bound electrons to free electrons. The density of optically…E. A. Szwed, B. Vermilyea, D. J. Choksy et al.·Apr 9, 2025SaveLearn
Mechanical stability of resonant Bose-Fermi mixturesWe investigate the mechanical stability of Bose-Fermi mixtures at zero temperature in the presence of a tunable Feshbach resonance, which induces a competition between boson condensation and…Christian Gualerzi, Leonardo Pisani, Pierbiagio Pieri·Apr 9, 2025SaveLearn
Atomic Regional Superfluids in two-dimensional Moiré Time CrystalsMoiré physics has transcended spatial dimensions, extending into synthetic domains and enabling novel quantum phenomena. We propose a theoretical model for a two-dimensional (2D) Moiré time crystal…Weijie Liang, Weiping Zhang, Keye Zhang·Apr 9, 2025SaveLearn
Quantum-stabilized states in magnetic dipolar quantum gasesA decade ago, a universal stabilization mechanism driven by quantum fluctuations was discovered in ultracold Bose gases of highly magnetic atoms. This mechanism prevents these systems from collapsing…Lauriane Chomaz·Apr 8, 2025SaveLearn
Paraxial fluids of lightParaxial fluids of light are a promising platform for exploring collective phenomena in a highly tunable environment. These systems, which map the propagation of light through nonlinear media onto…Quentin Glorieux, Clara Piekarski, Quentin Schibler et al.·Apr 8, 2025SaveLearn
Fast and direct preparation of a genuine lattice BEC via the quantum Mpemba effectWe demonstrate that dissipative state preparation protocols in many-body systems can be substantially accelerated via the quantum Mpemba effect. Our approach exploits weak symmetries to analytically…Philipp Westhoff, Sebastian Paeckel, Mattia Moroder·Apr 7, 2025SaveLearn
Frustrated Rydberg Atom Arrays Meet Cavity-QED: Emergence of the Superradiant Clock PhaseRydberg atom triangular arrays in an optical cavity serve as an ideal platform for understanding the interplay between geometric frustration and quantized photons. Using a large-scale quantum Monte…Ying Liang, Bao-Yun Dong, Zi-Jian Xiong et al.·Apr 7, 2025SaveLearn
Stability of spin dynamics for a spin-orbit coupled boson in a driven non-Hermitian double wellWe study the stability of spin dynamics for a spin-orbit (SO) coupled boson held in a driven non-Hermitian double-well potential. Under high-frequency approximation, we analytically derive the…Zhida Luo, Yurui Yang, Jiaxi Cui et al.·Apr 7, 2025SaveLearn
Non-equilibrium Dynamics and Universality of 4D Quantum Vortices and TurbulenceThe study of quantum vortices provides critical insights into non-equilibrium dynamics across diverse physical systems. While previous research has focused on point-like vortices in two dimensions…Wei-can Yang·Apr 6, 2025SaveLearn
Observation of Temperature Effects on False Vacuum Decay in Atomic Quantum GasesTemperature plays a crucial role in metastable phenomena, not only by contributing to determine the state (phase) of a system, but also ruling the decay probability to more stable states. Such a…Riccardo Cominotti, Cosetta Baroni, Chiara Rogora et al.·Apr 4, 2025SaveLearn
The effects of elastic and inelastic collisions in two- and three-body interactions on the stability of 3D Bose-Einstein condensatesIn this paper, we study the stability of three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates of finite temperatures at which both elastic and inelastic collisions are taken into account. The modeled…R. Sasireka, O. T. Lekeufack, S. Sabari et al.·Apr 4, 2025SaveLearn
Mitigating boundary effects in finite temperature simulations of false vacuum decayThe physics of false vacuum decay during first-order phase transitions in the early universe may be studied in the laboratory via cold-atom analogue simulators. However, a key difference between…Kate Brown, Ian G. Moss, Thomas P. Billam·Apr 4, 2025SaveLearn
Supersolid phase in two-dimensional soft-core bosons at finite temperatureThe supersolid phase of soft-core bosons in two dimensions is investigated using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock and quantum Monte Carlo methods. An approximate phase diagram at finite temperatures…Sebastiano Peotta, Gabriele Spada, Stefano Giorgini et al.·Apr 4, 2025SaveLearn
Competition of light- and phonon-dressing in microwave-dressed Bose polaronsWe theoretically investigate the stationary properties of a spin-1/2 impurity immersed in a one-dimensional confined Bose gas. In particular, we consider coherently coupled spin states with an…G. M. Koutentakis, S. I. Mistakidis, F. Grusdt et al.·Apr 4, 2025SaveLearn
Bubbles in a box: Eliminating edge nucleation in cold-atom simulators of vacuum decayThe decay of metastable 'false vacuum' states via bubble nucleation plays a crucial role in many cosmological scenarios. Cold-atom analog experiments will soon provide the first empirical…Alexander C. Jenkins, Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew Pontzen·Apr 3, 2025SaveLearn
Tilted dipolar bosons in the quasi-two-dimensional regime: From liquid stripes to dropletsWe characterize a system of tilted dipoles in a quasi two-dimensional (flattened) geometry and in the thermodynamic limit. We consider a finite trapping in the z-axis achievable in current…Juan Sánchez-Baena·Apr 3, 2025SaveLearn
Self-bound monolayer crystals of ultracold polar moleculesWe investigate the physics of ultracold dipolar molecules using path-integral quantum Monte Carlo simulations, and construct the complete phase diagram extending from weak to strong interactions and…Matteo Ciardi, Kasper Rønning Pedersen, Tim Langen et al.·Apr 3, 2025SaveLearn