Collective excitations of a one-dimensional quantum droplet
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2020-05-21
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Physical Review A, Volume 101, issue 5
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We calculate the excitation spectrum of a one-dimensional self-bound quantum droplet in a two-component bosonic mixture described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) with cubic and quadratic nonlinearities. The cubic term originates from the mean-field energy of the mixture proportional to the effective coupling constant δg, whereas the quadratic nonlinearity corresponds to the attractive beyond-mean-field contribution. The droplet properties are governed by a control parameter γ∞δgN2/3, where N is the particle number. For large γ>0, the droplet features the flat-top shape with the discrete part of its spectrum consisting of plane-wave Bogoliubov phonons propagating through the flat-density bulk and reflected by edges of the droplet. With decreasing γ, these modes cross into the continuum, sequentially crossing the particle-emission threshold at specific critical values. A notable exception is the breathing mode, which we find to be always bound. The balance point γ=0 provides implementation of a system governed by the GPE with an unusual quadratic nonlinearity. This case is characterized by the ratio of the breathing-mode frequency to the particle-emission threshold equal to 0.8904. As γ tends to -∞, this ratio tends to 1 and the droplet transforms into the soliton solution of the integrable cubic GPE.Description
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Tylutki, M, Astrakharchik, G E, Malomed, B A & Petrov, D S 2020, ' Collective excitations of a one-dimensional quantum droplet ', Physical Review A, vol. 101, no. 5, 051601 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.101.051601
