Breakup of quantum liquid filaments

We investigate how the Rayleigh-Plateau instability of a filament made of a 41 K - 87 Rb self-bound mixture may lead to an array of identical quantum droplets, with typical breaking times which are shorter than the lifetime of the mixture. If the filament is laterally confined, as it happens in a to...

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Autores: Ancilotto, Francesco, Barranco Gómez, Manuel, Pi Pericay, Martí
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/200463
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/200463
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Líquids quàntics
Fluctuacions (Física)
Condensació de Bose-Einstein
Quantum liquids
Fluctuations (Physics)
Bose-Einstein condensation
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Sumario:We investigate how the Rayleigh-Plateau instability of a filament made of a 41 K - 87 Rb self-bound mixture may lead to an array of identical quantum droplets, with typical breaking times which are shorter than the lifetime of the mixture. If the filament is laterally confined, as it happens in a toroidal trap, and atoms of one species are in excess with respect to the optimal equilibrium ratio, the droplets are immersed into a superfluid background made by the excess species which provides global phase coherence to the system, suggesting that the droplet array in the unbalanced system may display supersolid character. This possibility is investigated by computing the nonclassical translational inertia coefficient. The filament may be a reasonable representation of a self-bound mixture subject to toroidal confinement when the bigger circle radius of the torus is much larger than the filament radius.