A Dual-Species Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interspecies Interactions

We report on the production of a 41 K- 87 Rb dual-species Bose–Einstein condensate with tunable interspecies interaction and we study the mixture in the attractive regime; i.e., for negative values of the interspecies scattering length a 12 . The binary condensate is prepared in the ground state and...

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Published inCondensed matter Vol. 5; no. 1; p. 21
Main Authors Burchianti, Alessia, D’Errico, Chiara, Prevedelli, Marco, Salasnich, Luca, Ancilotto, Francesco, Modugno, Michele, Minardi, Francesco, Fort, Chiara
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published MDPI AG 01.03.2020
Subjects
Analysis
Bose-Einstein condensates
Influence
Intermolecular forces
mixture of quantum gases
multicomponent superfluids
quantum fluids
Superfluidity
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Summary:We report on the production of a 41 K- 87 Rb dual-species Bose–Einstein condensate with tunable interspecies interaction and we study the mixture in the attractive regime; i.e., for negative values of the interspecies scattering length a 12 . The binary condensate is prepared in the ground state and confined in a pure optical trap. We exploit Feshbach resonances for tuning the value of a 12 . After compensating the gravitational sag between the two species with a magnetic field gradient, we drive the mixture into the attractive regime. We let the system evolve both in free space and in an optical waveguide. In both geometries, for strong attractive interactions, we observe the formation of self-bound states, recognizable as quantum droplets. Our findings prove that robust, long-lived droplet states can be realized in attractive two-species mixtures, despite the two atomic components possibly experiencing different potentials.
ISSN:2410-3896
2410-3896
DOI:10.3390/condmat5010021