Quantum liquid droplets in a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates
Fitxers
Títol de la revista
ISSN de la revista
Títol del volum
Col·laborador
Editor
Tribunal avaluador
Realitzat a/amb
Tipus de document
Data publicació
Editor
Condicions d'accés
item.page.rightslicense
Publicacions relacionades
Datasets relacionats
Projecte CCD
Projecte
QUIC - Quantum simulations of insulators and conductors (EC-H2020-641122)
SIMULACION CUANTICA CON GASES ULTRAFRIOS FUERTEMENTE CORRELACIONADOS (MINECO-FIS2014-59546-P)
AGR-INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FOTONICAS (MINECO-SEV-2015-0522)
FOR2414
SGR874
BES-2015-072186 (MINECO-BES-2015-072186)
TOP-DOL - Topological physics in tunable optical lattices (EC-H2020-657439)
RYC-2015-17890 (MINECO-RYC-2015-17890)
Abstract
Quantum droplets are small clusters of atoms self-bound by the balance of attractive and repulsive forces. Here we report on the observation of a novel type of droplets, solely stabilized by contact interactions in a mixture of two Bose-Einstein condensates. We demonstrate that they are several orders of magnitude more dilute than liquid helium by directly measuring their size and density via in situ imaging. Moreover, by comparison to a single-component condensate, we show that quantum many-body effects stabilize them against collapse. We observe that droplets require a minimum atom number to be stable. Below, quantum pressure drives a liquid-to-gas transition that we map out as a function of interaction strength. These ultra-dilute isotropic liquids remain weakly interacting and constitute an ideal platform to benchmark quantum many-body theories.
Descripció
Bose-Einstein condensates
quantum mixtures
quantum liquids
quantum fluctuations


