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Collective excitations of self-bound droplets of a dipolar quantum fluid

arXiv:1703.07927 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.255302

Abstract

We calculate the collective excitations of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in the regime where it self-binds into droplets stabilized by quantum fluctuations. We show that the filament-shaped droplets act as a quasi-one-dimensional waveguide along which low angular momentum phonons propagate. The evaporation (unbinding) threshold occurring as the atom number is reduced to the critical value is associated with a monopole-like excitation going soft as . Considering the system in the presence of a trapping potential, we quantify the crossover from a trap-bound condensate to a self-bound droplet.

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