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Bose-Einstein condensate in an elliptical waveguide

by Luca Salasnich

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Luca Salasnich
Submission information
Preprint Link: scipost_202109_00024v3  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2022-03-18
Date submitted: 2022-03-08 13:27
Submitted by: Salasnich, Luca
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Core
Ontological classification
Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics - Theory
  • Condensed Matter Physics - Theory
Approaches: Theoretical, Phenomenological

Abstract

We investigate the effects of spatial curvature for an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate confined in an elliptical waveguide. The system is well described by an effective 1D Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a quantum-curvature potential, which has the shape of a double-well but crucially depends on the eccentricity of the ellipse. The ground state of the system displays a quantum phase transition from a two-peak configuration to a one-peak configuration at a critical attractive interaction strength. In correspondence of this phase transition the superfluid fraction strongly reduces and goes to zero for a sufficiently attractive Bose-Bose interaction.

Author comments upon resubmission

Response to Report 1.
I thank the Referee who thinks that the revision is adequate.

Response to Report 2.
Thanks a lot for the nice Report. I have improved the paper by adding and discussing the relevant references suggested by the Referee. The changes are in blue.

List of changes

1. I have changed and added some sentences in the Introduction.
2. I have added 8 references.

All the changes are in blue.

Published as SciPost Phys. Core 5, 015 (2022)

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