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arXiv:2607.10141

Self-organized quasicrystals and their excitations in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates via optical feedback

Liang-Jun He, Fabian Maucher, Yong-Chang Zhang

Published Jul 11, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

Quasicrystals emerge from competing interactions with incommensurate characteristic length scales that inhibit translational periodicity. Here, we show that such multiscale interactions can be realized in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate through the interplay between intrinsic dipole-dipole interactions and photon-mediated interactions generated by coupling to an excited-state manifold together with a suitably engineered optical feedback. This interplay gives rise to two pronounced roton instabilities in the Bogoliubov excitation spectrum, leading to a rich ground-state phase diagram including dodecagonal quasicrystals with twelvefold rotational symmetry for experimentally realistic parameters. We further propose a protocol to access these quasicrystals dynamically and develop a general numerical framework for calculating their collective excitation spectra.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2607.10141

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