Catalyzation of supersolidity in binary dipolar condensates
Daniel Scheiermann, Luis A. Peña Ardila, Thomas Bland, R. N. Bisset, L. Santos
Abstract
In this work, the authors show realistic conditions for which doping an unmodulated scalar condensate with a second component catalyzes droplet nucleation and supersolidity. In miscible mixtures, droplet nucleation may be induced even by a surprisingly small impurity doping due to the effective modification of the relative dipolar strength. As a result, binary dipolar condensates present different ground-state phases, most intriguingly the possibility of realizing an interacting two-fluid supersolid.
Topics & Concepts
SupersolidNucleationCondensed matter physicsDipoleChemical physicsMaterials scienceImpurityDopingGround stateBinary numberPhysicsThermodynamicsPhase (matter)Phase diagramQuantum mechanicsMathematicsArithmeticQuantum, superfluid, helium dynamicsCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism