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Collapse and Bose-Einstein condensation in a trapped Bose-gas with negative scattering length
We find that the key features of the evolution and collapse of a trapped Bose
condensate with negative scattering length are predetermined by the particle
flux from the above-condensate cloud to the condensate and by 3-body
recombination of Bose-condensed atoms. The collapse, starting once the number
of Bose-condensed atoms reaches the critical value, ceases and turns to
expansion when the density of the collapsing cloud becomes so high that the
recombination losses dominate over attractive interparticle interaction. As a
result, we obtain a sequence of collapses, each of them followed by dynamic
oscillations of the condensate. In every collapse the 3-body recombination
burns only a part of the condensate, and the number of Bose-condensed atoms
always remains finite. However, it can comparatively slowly decrease after the
collapse, due to the transfer of the condensate particles to the
above-condensate cloud in the course of damping of the condensate oscillations.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure
Influence of radiative interatomic collisions on an atom laser
We discuss the role of light absorption by pairs of atoms (radiative
collisions) in the context of a model for an atom laser. The model is applied
to the case of VSCPT cooling of metastable triplet helium. We show that,
because of radiative collisions, for positive detuning of the driving light
fields from an atomic resonance the operating conditions for the atom laser can
only be marginally met. It is shown that the system only behaves as an atom
laser if a very efficient sub-Doppler precooling mechanism is operative. In the
case of negative frequency detuning the requirements on this sub-Doppler
mechanism are less restricting, provided one avoids molecular resonances.Comment: 19 pages, 2 Postscript figure
Catalog of Stars with Solar-Type Activity -- CSSTA
A new version of CSSTA catalog of the lower main-sequence stars with
solar-type activity was presented. It comprises 314618 objects, and the
database that is realized on its basis is a developing project that contains
hyperlinks to the original photometric and spectral observations.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl
Superfluidity of identical fermions in an optical lattice: atoms and polar molecules
In this work, we discuss the emergence of -wave superfluids of identical
fermions in 2D lattices. The optical lattice potential manifests itself in an
interplay between an increase in the density of states on the Fermi surface and
the modification of the fermion-fermion interaction (scattering) amplitude. The
density of states is enhanced due to an increase of the effective mass of
atoms. In deep lattices, for short-range interacting atoms, the scattering
amplitude is strongly reduced compared to free space due to a small overlap of
wavefunctions of fermions sitting in the neighboring lattice sites, which
suppresses the -wave superfluidity. However, we show that for a moderate
lattice depth there is still a possibility to create atomic -wave
superfluids with sizable transition temperatures. The situation is drastically
different for fermionic polar molecules. Being dressed with a microwave field,
they acquire a dipole-dipole attractive tail in the interaction potential.
Then, due to a long-range character of the dipole-dipole interaction, the
effect of the suppression of the scattering amplitude in 2D lattices is absent.
This leads to the emergence of a stable topological superfluid of
identical microwave-dressed polar molecules.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures; prepared for proceedings of the IV International
Conference on Quantum Technologies (Moscow, July 12-16, 2017); the present
paper summarizes the results of our studies arXiv:1601.03026 and
arXiv:1701.0852
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