Bose-Einstein Condensates: a model system for particle solvation?
arXiv:1409.3329 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.135305
Abstract
We propose that impurities in Bose-Einstein condensates can serve as a minimal laboratory system to explore the effects of quantum and thermal fluctuations on solvation. Specifically, we show that the role of quantum fluctuations in the formation of solvation shells and the breakdown of linear response theory can be explored in detail.
5+4 pages, 6 figures
References in corpus (11)
- Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases
- Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms
- Quantum dynamics of a single, mobile spin impurity
- Emergent superfluid crystals, frustration, and topologically defected states in multimode cavity QED
- Self-organization of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical cavity
- Variational study of polarons in Bose-Einstein condensates
- Superfluidity of Interacting Bosonic Mixtures in Optical Lattices
- Atom-light crystallization of BECs in multimode cavities: Nonequilibrium classical and quantum phase transitions, emergent lattices, supersolidity, and frustration
- Self-localized impurities embedded in a one dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate and their quantum fluctuations
- Diagrammatic Monte Carlo study of the acoustic and the BEC polaron
- Bipolarons and multi-polarons consisting of impurity atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate