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Inverse energy cascade in forced two-dimensional quantum turbulence
We demonstrate an inverse energy cascade in a minimal model of forced 2D quantum vortex turbulence. We simulate the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a moving superfluid subject to forcing by a stationary grid of obstacle potentials, and damping by a stationary thermal cloud. The forcing injects large amounts of vortex energy into the system at the scale of a few healing lengths. A regime of forcing and damping is identified where vortex energy is efficiently transported to large length scales via an inverse energy cascade associated with the growth of clusters of same-circulation vortices, a Kolmogorov scaling law in the kinetic energy spectrum over a substantial inertial range, and spectral condensation of kinetic energy at the scale of the system size. Our results provide clear evidence that the inverse energy cascade phenomenon, previously observed in a diverse range of classical systems, can also occur in quantum fluids
Loading a vapor cell magneto-optic trap using light-induced atom desorption
Low intensity white light was used to increase the loading rate of Rb
atoms into a vapor cell magneto-optic trap by inducing non-thermal desorption
of Rb atoms from the stainless steel walls of the vapor cell. An increased Rb
partial pressure reached a new equilibrium value in less than 10 seconds after
switching on the broadband light source. After the source was turned off, the
partial pressure returned to its previous value in times as short as 10
seconds.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure
Transport behaviour of a Bose Einstein condensate in a bichromatic optical lattice
The Bloch and dipole oscillations of a Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) in an
optical superlattice is investigated. We show that the effective mass increases
in an optical superlattice, which leads to localization of the BEC, in
accordance with recent experimental observations [16]. In addition, we find
that the secondary optical lattice is a useful additional tool to manipulate
the dynamics of the atoms.Comment: Modified manuscrip
Analytical approximation of the stress-energy tensor of a quantized scalar field in static spherically symmetric spacetimes
Analytical approximations for and of a
quantized scalar field in static spherically symmetric spacetimes are obtained.
The field is assumed to be both massive and massless, with an arbitrary
coupling to the scalar curvature, and in a zero temperature vacuum state.
The expressions for and are divided into
low- and high-frequency parts. The contributions of the high-frequency modes to
these quantities are calculated for an arbitrary quantum state. As an example,
the low-frequency contributions to and are
calculated in asymptotically flat spacetimes in a quantum state corresponding
to the Minkowski vacuum (Boulware quantum state). The limits of the
applicability of these approximations are discussed.Comment: revtex4, 17 pages; v2: three references adde
Generating vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates in the line-source approximation
We present a numerical method for generating vortex rings in Bose-Einstein
condensates confined in axially symmetric traps. The vortex ring is generated
using the line-source approximation for the vorticity, i.e., the rotational of
the superfluid velocity field is different from zero only on a circumference of
given radius located on a plane perpendicular to the symmetry axis and coaxial
with it. The particle density is obtained by solving a modified
Gross-Pitaevskii equation that incorporates the effect of the velocity field.
We discuss the appearance of density profiles, the vortex core structure and
the vortex nucleation energy, i.e., the energy difference between vortical and
ground-state configurations. This is used to present a qualitative description
of the vortex dynamics.Comment: Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Simulation of a stationary dark soliton in a trapped zero-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate
We discuss a computational mechanism for the generation of a stationary dark
soliton, or black soliton, in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate using the
Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation for both attractive and repulsive interaction.
It is demonstrated that the black soliton with a "notch" in the probability
density with a zero at the minimum is a stationary eigenstate of the GP
equation and can be efficiently generated numerically as a nonlinear
continuation of the first vibrational excitation of the GP equation in both
attractive and repulsive cases in one and three dimensions for pure harmonic as
well as harmonic plus optical-lattice traps. We also demonstrate the stability
of this scheme under different perturbing forces.Comment: 7 pages, 15 ps figures, Final version accepted in J Low Temp Phy
Persistent currents in a circular array of Bose-Einstein condensates
A ring-shaped array of Bose-Einstein condensed atomic gases can display
circular currents if the relative phase of neighboring condensates becomes
locked to certain values. It is shown that, irrespective of the mechanism
responsible for generating these states, only a restricted set of currents are
stable, depending on the number of condensates, on the interaction and
tunneling energies, and on the total number of particles. Different
instabilities due to quasiparticle excitations are characterized and possible
experimental setups for testing the stability prediction are also discussed.Comment: 7 pages, REVTex
Thermalization of an impurity cloud in a Bose-Einstein condensate
We study the thermalization dynamics of an impurity cloud inside a
Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature, introducing a suitable
Boltzmann equation. Some values of the temperature and of the initial impurity
energy are considered. We find that, below the Landau critical velocity, the
macroscopic population of the initial impurity state reduces its depletion
rate. For sufficiently high velocities the opposite effect occurs. For
appropriate parameters the collisions cool the condensate. The maximum cooling
per impurity atom is obtained with multiple collisions.Comment: 4 pages 6 figure
Method to compute the stress-energy tensor for the massless spin 1/2 field in a general static spherically symmetric spacetime
A method for computing the stress-energy tensor for the quantized, massless,
spin 1/2 field in a general static spherically symmetric spacetime is
presented. The field can be in a zero temperature state or a non-zero
temperature thermal state. An expression for the full renormalized
stress-energy tensor is derived. It consists of a sum of two tensors both of
which are conserved. One tensor is written in terms of the modes of the
quantized field and has zero trace. In most cases it must be computed
numerically. The other tensor does not explicitly depend on the modes and has a
trace equal to the trace anomaly. It can be used as an analytic approximation
for the stress-energy tensor and is equivalent to other approximations that
have been made for the stress-energy tensor of the massless spin 1/2 field in
static spherically symmetric spacetimes.Comment: 34 pages, no figure
Macroscopic Quantum Fluctuations in the Josephson Dynamics of Two Weakly Linked Bose-Einstein Condensates
We study the quantum corrections to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for two
weakly linked Bose-Einstein condensates. The goals are: 1) to investigate
dynamical regimes at the borderline between the classical and quantum behaviour
of the bosonic field; 2) to search for new macroscopic quantum coherence
phenomena not observable with other superfluid/superconducting systems. Quantum
fluctuations renormalize the classical Josephson oscillation frequencies. Large
amplitude phase oscillations are modulated, exhibiting collapses and revivals.
We describe a new inter-well oscillation mode, with a vanishing (ensemble
averaged) mean value of the observables, but with oscillating mean square
fluctuations. Increasing the number of condensate atoms, we recover the
classical Gross-Pitaevskii (Josephson) dynamics, without invoking the
symmetry-breaking of the Gauge invariance.Comment: Submitte
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