Dynamics of Stripe Patterns in Supersolid Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose Gases

Year: 2023

Authors: Geier KT., Martone GI., Hauke P., Ketterle W., Stringari S.

Autors Affiliation: Univ Trento, Pitaevskii BEC Ctr, CNR INO, I-38123 Trento, Italy; Univ Trento, Dipartimento Fis, I-38123 Trento, Italy; INFN, Trento Inst Fundamental Phys & Applicat, I-38123 Trento, Italy; Heidelberg Univ, Inst Theoret Phys, Philosophenweg 16, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany; ENS PSL Res Univ, Sorbonne Univ, Lab Kastler Brossel, CNRS,Coll France, 4 Pl Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France; CNR NANOTEC, Inst Nanotechnol, Via Monteroni, I-73100 Lecce, Italy; INFN, Sez Lecce, I-73100 Lecce, Italy; MIT Harvard Ctr Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA; MIT, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.

Abstract: Despite ground-breaking observations of supersolidity in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates, until now the dynamics of the emerging spatially periodic density modulations has been vastly unexplored. Here, we demonstrate the nonrigidity of the density stripes in such a supersolid condensate and explore their dynamic behavior subject to spin perturbations. We show both analytically in infinite systems and numerically in the presence of a harmonic trap how spin waves affect the supersolid’s density profile in the form of crystal waves, inducing oscillations of the periodicity as well as the orientation of the fringes. Both these features are well within reach of present-day experiments. Our results show that this system is a paradigmatic supersolid, featuring superfluidity in conjunction with a fully dynamic crystalline structure.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 130 (15)      Pages from: 156001-1  to: 156001-7

More Information: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme(Grant Agreement No. 804305). This work has been supported by Q@TN, the joint lab between the University of Trento, FBK-Fondazione Bruno Kessler,INFN-National Institute for Nuclear Physics, and CNR-National Research Council. We further acknowledge support by Provincia Autonoma di Trento, from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) through the PRIN project INPhoPOL (Grant No. 2017P9FJBS) and the PNRR MUR Project No. PE0000023-NQSTI, and from the National Science Foundation through the Center forUltracold Atoms and Grant No. 1506369.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.156001

Citations: 2
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