Stationary States and Modulational Instability of Coupled Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Ring Trap

We investigate modulational instability (MI) of a coupled two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in a rotating ring trap. The excitation spectrum and the MI condition of the system are presented analytically. We find that the coupling between the two components strongly modifies the MI condition, and the MI condition is phase-dependent. Furthermore, we discuss the effect of MI on both density excitation and spin excitation. If the inter- and intra-component interaction strengths are all equal, the MI causes density excitation but not spin excitation, and if the inter- and intra-component interaction strengths are different, the MI causes both density excitation and spin excitation. Our results provide a promising approach for controlling the stability and excitation of a rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensates by modulating its coupling strength and interaction strength.     

Modulational Instability of Spinor Condensates in an Optical Lattice

We obtain analytically the static states and corresponding collective-excitation spectra of a quasi-onedimensional spin-1 condensate modulated by a long-wavelength optical lattice in the weak lattice limit. It is demonstrated that both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic condensates may exhibit dynamical instability, which agree with the results with numerical simulation. In the homogeneous limit, our results reduce to the previous results for homogeneous spinor condensates, i.e., dynamical instability can occur only for ferromagnetic interaction and an antiferromagnetic condensate is always dynamically stable.     

Energy Band and Josephson Dynamics of Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose——Einstein Condensates

We theoretically investigate the energy band structure and Josephson dynamics of a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential. We study the energy band structure and the corresponding tunneling dynamics of the system by properly adjusting the SO coupling, Raman coupling, Zeeman field and atomic interactions. The coupled effects of SO coupling, Raman coupling, Zeeman field and atomic interactions lead to the appearance of complex energy band structure including the loop structure. Particularly, the emergence of the loop structure in energy band also depends on SO coupling, Raman coupling, Zeeman field and atomic interactions. Correspondingly, the Josephson dynamics of the system are strongly related to the energy band structure. Especially, the emergence of the loop structure results in complex tunneling dynamics, including suppression-revival transitions and self-trapping of atoms transfer between two spin states and two wells. This engineering provides a possible means for studying energy level and corresponding dynamics of two-species SO coupled BECs.     

Light Vector Mesons Production in Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions from the Color Glass Condensate

We calculate inclusive light vector mesons (p,w, and φ) production in relativistic heavy ion collisions based on the idea of gluon saturation in the color glass condensate (CGC) framework. At high energies, the value of saturation momentum becomes larger than the Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) confinement scale Λ_QCD, which implies that s(Q_s) << 1. Using the relativistic kinetic theory, we derive the production rate for the light vector mesons produced by gluon-gluon fusion in the kT -factorization approach. The numerical results indicate that the light vector mesons from the color glass condensate become prominent in p-p, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) energies.     

Stability of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates in one-dimensional tilted optical lattice potential

Using the direct perturbation technique,this paper obtains a general perturbed solution of the Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in one-dimensional tilted optical lattice potential. We also gave out two necessary and sufficient conditions for boundedness of the perturbed solution. Theoretical analytical results and the corresponding numerical results show that the perturbed solution of the Bose-Einstein condensate system is unbounded in general and indicate that the Bose-Einstein condensates are Lyapunov-unstable. However,when the conditions for boundedness of the perturbed solution are satisfied,then the Bose-Einstein condensates are Lyapunov-stable.     

Cavity-Induced Self-Trapping of a Bose Josephson Junction

We investigate the self-trapping of a Bose Josephson junction, which is dispersively coupled to a driven optical cavity. The cavity-induced nonlinearity is presented analytically, and its effect results in the appearance of the self-trapping for the Bose-Einstein condensates in the Josephson oscillation regime. In addition, there exists competition between the nonlinearitiesinduced by the interatomic interaction and by the driven cavity for the emergences of self-trapping. Our results show that the driven cavity can be utilized as a possible tool to produce the self-trapping for the condensates with weak interatomic interaction.     

Dark soliton in one-dimensional Bose–Einstein condensate under a periodic perturbation of trap

The perturbation of a confining trap leads to the collective oscillation of a Bose--Einstein condensate, thereby the propagation of a dark soliton in the condensate is affected. In this study, periodic perturbation is employed to match the soliton oscillation. We find that the soliton dynamics depends sensitively on the coupling between the moving direction of the trap and that of the soliton. The soliton energy/depth evolves periodically, and a relevant shift in the soliton trajectory occurs as compared with the unperturbed case. Overall, the soliton oscillation frequency changes little even if the perturbation amplitude and frequency vary.     

Vortex state in thermally-induced pinning patterns in superconducting film

We propose a way to manipulate the landscape of the superconducting condensate in thin films via stripe-like (1D) and checkerboard (2D) periodic patterns. Our approach is based on the spatially localized heating of the superconductor, which is reflected in sinusoidal variations of the local temperature, which can be produced via, e.g., a focused laser beam or nanoheaters. This simple approach provides a very good alternative for modulation of the vortex collective, emerging in the type-II superconductors as a natural response to the applied magnetic field and the transport current, which was, up to now, controlled mainly via nanofabricated static pinning centers, whose distribution cannot be changed once the landscape is defined.     

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中的怪波操控

利用Darboux变换法, 解析地研究了玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)中的怪波. 结果表明: 当谱参数等于非线性系数时, BEC中形成一种新型的单洞怪波; 而当谱参数小于非线性系数时, BEC中出现双洞怪波. 进一步地, 怪波的出现位置可通过调节周期性势阱的驱动频率和强度来控制. 此外, 随着原子间相互作用的减小, 怪波的最高幅度也随之降低. 相关结果可为预防怪波的危害提供帮助.     

Vortices in a Rotating Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate under Extreme Elongation in a Harmonic Plus Quartic Trap

We consider the ground-state properties of a rotating spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate under extreme elongation in a harmonic plus quartic potential. The effects of spin-orbit coupling and rotation on the ground-state vortex structures are investigated. In the absence of spin-orbit coupling, new nucleated vortices gradually form vortex lines and annular vortex structures with the increase of the rotation frequency. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling, part of the vortices arrange in a line and form a stable vortex chain, and the remanent vortices coexist in pairs aside such vortex chain. More specially, the remanent vortices of each component repel each other and form vortex pair for isotropic spin-orbit coupling, while attract each other and locate in the same positions for anisotropic spin-orbit coupling.