Loss of superfluidity in a Bose-Einstein condensate on an optical lattice via a novel classical phase transition

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(03)00059-8zbMATH Open1008.82034arXivcond-mat/0211215MaRDI QIDQ1858091FDOQ1858091

Authors: S. K. Adhikari 

Publication date: 11 February 2003

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We predict the loss of superfluidity in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a combined optical and axially-symmetric harmonic potentials during a resonant collective excitation initiated by a periodic modulation of the atomic scattering length $a$, when the modulation frequency equals twice the radial trapping frequency or multiples thereof. This classical dynamical transition is marked by a loss of superfluidity in the BEC and a subsequent destruction of the interference pattern upon free expansion. Suggestion for future experiment is made.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211215

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zbMATH Keywords

axial-symmetric harmonic potentialinterference pattern destructionresonant collective excitation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

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