By considering symmetric- and asymmetric-dipolar coupled mixtures (with dysprosium and erbium isotopes), we report a study on relevant anisotropic effects, related to spatial separation and miscibility, due to dipole-dipole interactions (DDIs) in rotating binary dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. The binary mixtures are kept in strong pancake-like traps, with repulsive two-body interactions modeled by an effective two-dimensional (2D) coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The DDI are tuned from repulsive to attractive by varying the dipole polarization angle. A clear spatial separation is verified in the densities for attractive DDIs, being angular for symmetric mixtures and radial for asymmetric ones. Also relevant is the mass-imbalance sensibility observed by the vortex-patterns in symmetric- and asymmetric-dipolar mixtures. In an extension of this study, here we show how the rotational properties and spatial separation of these dipolar mixture are affected by a quartic term added to the harmonic trap of one of the components.
By considering symmetric- and asymmetric-dipolar coupled mixtures (with dysprosium and erbium isotopes), we report a study on relevant anisotropic effects, related to spatial separation and miscibility, due to dipole-dipole interactions (DDIs) in rotating binary dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. The binary mixtures are kept in strong pancake-like traps, with repulsive two-body interactions modeled by an effective two-dimensional (2D) coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The DDI are tuned from repulsive to attractive by varying the dipole polarization angle. A clear spatial separation is verified in the densities for attractive DDIs, being angular for symmetric mixtures and radial for asymmetric ones. Also relevant is the mass-imbalance sensibility observed by the vortex-patterns in symmetric- and asymmetric-dipolar mixtures. In an extension of this study, here we show how the rotational properties and spatial separation of these dipolar mixture are affected by a quartic term added to the harmonic trap of one of the components.
We are pointing out relevant anisotropic effects, related to spatial separation and miscibility, due to dipole-dipole interactions in rotating binary dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates by considering symmetric ($^{164}\mathrm{Dy}\ensuremath{-}^{162}\mathrm{Dy}$) and asymmetric ($^{168}\mathrm{Er}\ensuremath{-}^{164}\mathrm{Dy}, ^{164}\mathrm{Dy}\ensuremath{-}^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$) dipolar mixtures. The binary mixtures are kept in a strong pancake-shaped trap, with repulsive two-body interactions and fixed rotation, modeled by an effective two-dimensional coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The anisotropy of the dipolar interactions on miscibility and vortex-lattice structures is studied by tuning the dipole-dipole interaction (DDI) from repulsive to attractive by varying the dipole polarization angle. A clear spatial separation is verified in the densities for attractive DDI, when the inter- to intraspecies contact interaction ratio is larger than 1, being angular for symmetric mixtures and radial for asymmetric ones. The signature of hidden vortices is evidenced in the particular dipolar-symmetric case. Another relevant outcome is the observed mass-imbalance sensibility verified by the vortex-pattern binary distributions in symmetric and asymmetric-dipolar mixtures, which requires the use of a relation for nonhomogeneous mixtures to estimate the miscibility of two components.
Abstract Vortex-lattice patterns with transitions from regular to other variety vortex shapes are predicted in rotating binary mixtures of dipolar Bose–Einstein condensates loaded in squared optical lattices (OLs). We focus our investigation on the experimentally accessible dipolar isotopes of dysprosium ( 162,164 Dy), erbium ( 168 Er), chromium ( 52 Cr), and rubidium ( 87 Rb), by considering the binary mixtures ( 164 Dy- 162 Dy, 168 Er- 164 Dy, 164 Dy- 52 Cr and 164 Dy- 87 Rb), which are confined in strong pancake-shaped traps and loaded in squared two-dimensional (2D) OLs, where we vary the polarization angle of the dipoles, the inter-species contact interactions and the rotation frequency. The ratio between inter- to intra-species contact interaction is used for altering the miscibility properties, with the polarization of the dipolar species used for tuning the dipole–dipole interactions to repulsive or attractive. For enough higher rotation, where the inter- to intra-species scattering length ratio is larger than one, in which a richer variety of vortex-lattice patterns are predicted, including vortex sheets and 2D rotating droplet formations. The patterns can be controlled by changing the OL parameters, as shown for the symmetric 164 Dy- 162 Dy dipolar mixture. For mixtures with stronger differences in the dipole moments, such as 164 Dy- 52 Cr and 164 Dy- 87 Rb, only half the quantum vortices and circular ones have been observed, which will depend on the dipole orientations.
We perform a full three-dimensional study on miscible-immiscible conditions for coupled dipolar and non-dipolar Bose–Einstein condensates (BEC), confined in anisotropic traps. In view of recent experimental studies, our focus was the atomic erbium–dysprosium ( 168 Er– 164 Dy) and dysprosium–dysprosium ( 164 Dy– 162 Dy) mixtures. The miscibility is quantified by the overlap of the two-component densities, using an appropriate defined parameter. By verifying that stable regimes for pure-dipolar coupled BECs are only possible in pancake-type traps, we obtain some non-trivial local minimum biconcave-shaped states with density oscillations in both components. For non-dipolar systems with repulsive interactions, we show that immiscible stable configurations are also possible in cigar-type geometries. The main role of the trap aspect ratio and inter-species contact interaction for the miscibility is verified for different configurations, from non-dipolar to pure dipolar systems.
We investigate the formation of vortices in quasi-two-dimensional dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) through the interplay between two-body contact and long-ranged dipole-dipole interactions (DDIs), as both interactions can be tuned from repulsive to attractive. By solving the associated Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a rotating system, our initial approach concentrates on stabilizing a collapsing condensate with attractive s-wave two-body interactions by employing sufficiently large repulsive DDIs. Subsequently, the same procedure was applied after reversing the signs of both interactions to evaluate the sensitivity of vortex formation to such an interchange of interactions. As a reference to guide our investigation, valid for generic dipolar atomic species, we have assumed a condensate with the strong dipolar dysprosium isotope, 164Dy. The correlation of the results with other dipolar BEC systems was exemplified by considering rotating BECs with two other isotopes, namely 168Er and 52Cr. For a purely dipolar condensate (no contact interactions) under fixed rotation, we show how the number of visible vortices increases as the DDI becomes more repulsive, accomplished by tuning the orientation of the dipoles through a characteristic angle parameter.
We experimentally and theoretically investigate the influence of the dipole-dipole interactions (DDIs) on the total inter-species interaction in an erbium-dysprosium mixture. By rotating the dipole orientation we are able to tune the effect of the long-range and anisotropic DDI, and therefore the in-trap clouds displacement. We present a theoretical description for our binary system based on an extended Gross-Pitaevskii (eGP) theory, including the single-species beyond mean-field terms, and we predict a lower and an upper bound for the inter-species scattering length a12. Our work is a first step towards the investigation of the experimentally unexplored dipolar miscibility-immiscibility phase diagram and the realization of quantum droplets and supersolid states with heteronuclear dipolar mixtures.
We study the structure and stability of vortex lattices in two-component rotating Bose-Einstein condensates with intrinsic dipole-dipole interactions and contact interactions. To address experimentally accessible coupled systems, we consider $^{164}\mathrm{Dy}\ensuremath{-}^{162}\mathrm{Dy}$ and $^{168}\mathrm{Er}\ensuremath{-}^{164}\mathrm{Dy}$ mixtures, which feature different miscibilities. The corresponding dipole moments are ${\ensuremath{\mu}}_{\mathrm{Dy}}=10{\ensuremath{\mu}}_{\mathrm{B}}$ and ${\ensuremath{\mu}}_{\mathrm{Er}}=7{\ensuremath{\mu}}_{\mathrm{B}}$, where ${\ensuremath{\mu}}_{\mathrm{B}}$ is the Bohr magneton. For comparison we also discuss a case where one of the species is nondipolar. Under a large aspect ratio of the trap, we consider mixtures in the pancake-shaped format, which are modeled by effective two-dimensional coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations, with a fixed polarization of the magnetic dipoles. Then, the miscibility and vortex-lattice structures are studied by varying the coefficients of the contact interactions (assuming the use of the Feshbach-resonance mechanism) and the rotation frequency. We present phase diagrams for several types of lattices in the parameter plane of the rotation frequency and the ratio of inter- and intraspecies scattering lengths. The vortex structures are found to be diverse for the more miscible $^{164}\mathrm{Dy}\ensuremath{-}^{162}\mathrm{Dy}$ composition, with a variety of shapes, whereas for the less miscible case of $^{168}\mathrm{Er}\ensuremath{-}^{164}\mathrm{Dy}$, the lattice patterns mainly feature circular or square formats.