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arXiv:2309.14878 · Physical Review A

Faraday waves on a bubble-trapped Bose-Einstein-condensed binary mixture

Leonardo Brito da Silva, Lauro Tomio, A. Gammal

Published Nov 16, 2023• 9 citations
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Abstract

By studying the dynamic stability of Bose-Einstein-condensed binary mixtures trapped on the surface of an ideal two-dimensional spherical bubble, we show how the Rabi coupling between the species can modulate the interactions leading to parametric resonances. In this spherical geometry, the discrete unstable angular modes drive both phase separations and spatial patterns, with Faraday waves emerging and coexisting with an immiscible phase. Noticeable is the fact that, in the context of discrete kinetic energy spectrum, the only parameters to drive the emergence of Faraday waves are the $s\text{\ensuremath{-}}wave$ contact interactions and the Rabi coupling. Once analytical solutions for population dynamics are obtained, the stability of homogeneous miscible species is investigated through Bogoliubov--de Gennes and Floquet methods, with predictions being analyzed by full numerical solutions applied to the corresponding time-dependent coupled formalism.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.108.053315

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A Faraday-wave-like parametric instability is investigated via mean-field and Floquet analysis in immiscible binary Bose-Einstein condensates. The condensates form a so-called ball-shell structure in a two-dimensional harmonic trap. To trigger the dynamics, the scattering length of the core condensate is periodically modulated in time. We reveal that in the dynamics the interface becomes unstable towards the formation of oscillating patterns. The interface oscillates subharmonically, exhibiting an mmm-fold rotational symmetry that can be controlled by maneuvering the amplitude and the frequency of the modulation. Using Floquet analysis we are able to predict the generated interfacial tension of the mixture and derive a dispersion relation for the natural frequencies of the emergent patterns. A heteronuclear system composed of $^{87}\mathrm{Rb}\ensuremath{-}^{85}\mathrm{Rb}$ atoms can be used for the experimental realization of the phenomenon, yet our results are independent of the specifics of the employed atomic species and of the parameters such as scattering lengths and trap strengths at which the driving is applied.
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Abstract Faraday or parametric instability has been observed in various contexts in Bose–Einstein condensates. In Rabi-coupled condensates, the instability can arise without explicit modulation of external parameters. We study the dynamics of an interface in a two-component immiscible condensate near the miscible-immiscible threshold, with Rabi coupling between components. We show that a small initial perturbation leads to oscillations that grow in amplitude with increasing Rabi frequency until the interface produces droplet-like structures. We find that the interface oscillations are driven by parametric resonance with density oscillations in the bulk. This parametric instability of the interface provides a link to the walking droplet pilot wave system, which is governed by the Faraday instability. Because walking droplets simulate fundamentally quantum behaviors, and ‘vortex molecules,’ which are hosted by a Rabi-coupled condensate, simulate quark confinement, this observation suggests a mechanism-level connection between these systems and provides a possible bridge between distinct analog models of fundamental particles.
Faraday and resonant density waves emerge in Bose-Einstein condensates as a result of harmonic driving of the system. They represent nonlinear excitations and are generated due to the interaction-induced coupling of collective oscillation modes and the existence of parametric resonances. Using a mean-field variational and a full numerical approach, we studied density waves in dipolar condensates at zero temperature, where breaking of the symmetry due to anisotropy of the dipole-dipole interaction (DDI) plays an important role. We derived variational equations of motion for the dynamics of a driven dipolar system and identify the most unstable modes that correspond to the Faraday and resonant waves. Based on this, we derived the analytical expressions for spatial periods of both types of density waves as functions of the contact and the DDI strength. We compared the obtained variational results with the results of extensive numerical simulations that solve the dipolar Gross-Pitaevskii equation in 3D, and found a very good agreement.