Temperature-induced miscibility of impurities in trapped Bose gases

We study the thermal properties of impurities embedded in a repulsive Bose gas under a harmonic trapping potential. In order to obtain the exact structural properties in this inhomogeneous many-body system, we resort to the path-integral Monte Carlo method. We find that, at low temperatures, a singl...

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Autores: Pascual López, Gerard|||0000-0002-6596-2206, Wasak, Tomasz, Negretti, Antonio, Astrakharchik, Grigori|||0000-0003-0394-8094, Boronat Medico, Jordi|||0000-0002-0273-3457
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/406721
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/406721
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L022014
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Bose-Einstein condensation
Monte Carlo method
Atomic and molecular physics
Path-integral Monte Carlo
Superfluid density
Condensació de Bose-Einstein
Montecarlo, Mètode de
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:We study the thermal properties of impurities embedded in a repulsive Bose gas under a harmonic trapping potential. In order to obtain the exact structural properties in this inhomogeneous many-body system, we resort to the path-integral Monte Carlo method. We find that, at low temperatures, a single impurity is expelled to the edges of the bath cloud if the impurity-boson coupling constant is larger than the boson-boson one. However, when the temperature is increased, but still in the Bose-condensed phase, the impurity occupies the center of the trap and, thus, the system becomes miscible. This thermal-induced miscibility crossover is also observed for a finite concentration of impurities in this inhomogeneous system. We find that the transition temperature for miscibility depends on the impurity-boson interaction and we indicate a different nondestructive method to measure the temperature of a system based on the studied phenomenon.