Roton-type mode softening in a quantum gas with cavity-mediated long-range interactions
arXiv:1203.1322 · doi:10.1126/science.1220314
Abstract
Long-range interactions in quantum gases are predicted to give rise to an excitation spectrum of roton character, similar to that observed in superfluid helium. We investigate the excitation spectrum of a Bose-Einstein condensate with cavity-mediated long-range interactions, which couple all particles to each other. Increasing the strength of the interaction leads to a softening of an excitation mode at a finite momentum, preceding a superfluid to supersolid phase transition. We study the mode softening spectroscopically across the phase transition using a variant of Bragg spectroscopy. The measured spectrum is in very good agreement with ab initio calculations and, at the phase transition, a diverging susceptibility is observed. The work paves the way towards quantum simulation of long-range interacting many-body systems.
10 pages, 5 figures, supplementary materials
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