The breathing mode collective-excitation frequency of a Bose-Einstein condensate is studied in a highly asymmetric (two- or one-dimensional) trap by using a sum-rule method and a time-dependent variational method. The collective-excitation frequency of the breathing mode in the Thomas-Fermi limit for a purely two- or one-dimensional trap is reproduced by a general result for a three-dimensional trap. In the case of a two- or one-dimensional trap, we obtain the lowest-order correction for the excitation frequency due to the finiteness of the trap frequency in the tightly trapped direction or the finiteness of the number of atoms.
The breathing mode collective-excitation frequency of a Bose-Einstein condensate is studied in a highly asymmetric (two- or one-dimensional) trap by using a sum-rule method and a time-dependent variational method. The collective-excitation frequency of the breathing mode in the Thomas-Fermi limit for a purely two- or one-dimensional trap is reproduced by a general result for a three-dimensional trap. In the case of a two- or one-dimensional trap, we obtain the lowest-order correction for the excitation frequency due to the finiteness of the trap frequency in the tightly trapped direction or the finiteness of the number of atoms.
We theoretically investigate the ground-state properties and breathing-mode collective excitations of three-dimensional dipolar Bose gases in anisotropic harmonic traps incorporating quantum fluctuations. Combining a Gaussian variational ansatz with a non-perturbative sum-rule analysis, we derive explicit analytical expressions for both axial and radial breathing-mode frequencies, which are validated by numerical solutions of the time-dependent extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Our theoretical predictions show excellent agreement with existing experimental data for 166Er and 162Dy gases. By constructing comprehensive phase diagrams across the parameter space of the s-wave scattering length, atom number, and trap aspect ratio, we reveal both discontinuous first-order phase transitions and smooth crossovers between the dilute Bose-Einstein condensate and dense quantum droplet phases. We confirm that the enhanced incompressibility induced by quantum fluctuations significantly elevates the breathing-mode frequencies in the droplet phase compared to conventional weakly interacting Bose gases. Furthermore, the system undergoes a phase transition and a crossover over the scattering length under the quasi-two-dimensional and quasi-one-dimensional confinements, characterized by discontinuous jumps and continuous crossovers in peak density and atomic cloud sizes, respectively. Our work offers a rigorous and highly accurate framework to characterize collective excitations in dipolar quantum gases, providing quantitative insights for forthcoming ultracold atom experiments in lanthanide atoms and polar molecules.
Collective modes are coherent excitations in Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs), and their study provides insight into the macroscopic quantum phenomena that govern these systems. Collective mode frequencies can be used to probe the properties of BECs, such as the trap geometry, the interatomic interactions, and the presence of defects; hence, it is essential to develop methods for high-resolution determination of collective mode frequencies. A standard technique consists of a single pulse of an external oscillatory field, which the authors denote Rabi-like due to the analogy with the field of nuclear magnetic resonances. In this work, the authors propose a method to achieve a better resolution than the Rabi-like protocol, which consists of two oscillating fields separated in time, which the authors call Ramsey-like. The authors focus on BECs in harmonic traps, considering mainly the quadrupole and breathing modes for different trap anisotropy values and comparing the results using single and double excitation periods. First, the authors employ a variational approach with a Thomas–Fermi ansatz, which gives rise to dynamical equations that are numerically solved. Then, the authors modeled the problem as a three-level system, offering a concise and alternative description of the same dynamics, enabling the idea of coherent control of these collective modes. Both approaches show that the Ramsey-like protocol provides a better resolution than the Rabi-like. This offers the possibility of measuring collective mode frequencies with higher precision, which is important in experiments where they are used as indirect measurements of properties that are difficult to probe.
We investigate the quantum breathing mode (monopole oscillation) of trapped fermionic particles with Coulomb and dipole interaction in one and two dimensions. This collective oscillation has been shown to reveal detailed information on the many-particle state of interacting trapped systems and is thus a sensitive diagnostics for a variety of finite systems, including cold atomic and molecular gases in traps and optical lattices, electrons in metal clusters and in quantum confined semiconductor structures or nanoplasmas. An improved sum rule formalism allows us to accurately determine the breathing frequencies from the ground state of the system, avoiding complicated time-dependent simulations. In combination with the Hartree–Fock and the Thomas–Fermi approximations this enables us to extend the calculations to large particle numbers N on the order of several million. Tracing the breathing frequency to large N as a function of the coupling parameter of the system reveals a surprising difference of the asymptotic behavior of one-dimensional and two-dimensional harmonically trapped Coulomb systems.
We show that the breathing mode of a rapidly rotating, harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate may be described by a generalized lowest Landau level (LLL) wave function, in which the oscillator length is treated as a variable. Using this wave function in a variational Lagrangian formalism, we show that the frequency of the breathing mode for a two-dimensional cloud is $2{\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$, where ${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ is the trap frequency. We also study large-amplitude oscillations and confirm that the above result is not limited to linear oscillations. The resulting mode frequency can be understood in terms of orbits of a single particle in a harmonic trap. The mode frequency is also calculated for a cloud in three dimensions and the result for the axial breathing mode frequency agrees with recent experimental data in the rapid rotation regime.
We calculate the breathing mode frequency ω in a one-dimensional Bose gas confined to a harmonic trap of frequency ωz. We predict a smooth crossover from Thomas-Fermi Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) regime (ω=3ωz) to Gaussian BEC regime (ω=2ωz) using Hartree approximation and sum rules approach, adopted to small system sizes. Local density approximation (LDA) correctly captures the crossover from Tonks-Girardeau (ω=2ωz) to Thomas-Fermi BEC (ω=3ωz) regimes. Predictions from local density and Hartree approximations can be continuously matched for N>25 particles, providing a complete zero-temperature description for large number of particles and resulting in a non-monotonic reentrant behavior of the breathing frequency. For smaller number of particles (ranging from N=2 to N=25) we perform extensive diffusion Monte Carlo simulations. This permits us to obtain a complete picture, applicable to arbitrary number of particles and any repulsive interaction strength. We provide perturbative analysis for both weak and strong coupling regimes. We revisit Innsbruck group experiment [Science 325, 1224 (2009)], analyzing the measurements done in Thomas-Fermi - Gaussian BEC crossover, and demonstrate that the breathing frequency follows a reentrant behavior as a function of the interaction strength in full agreement with our theory.
Collective modes of the ground and excited states of Bose?Einstein condensates are calculated by diagonalization of the Bogoliubov?de Gennes matrix in cylindrical coordinates. For an isotropic magnetic trap, the first breathing mode frequencies of the ground and dark soliton excited states are found to be in excellent agreement with a direct solution of the Gross?Pitaevskii equation with a time-dependent driving potential. In addition, the matrix diagonalization yields densities and frequencies for second breathing modes and higher order multipole modes. For an axially symmetric anisotropic trap, a considerable number of collective modes of the ground and dark soliton excited states are calculated. Prolate traps are found to have many more low-frequency multipolar modes than found in oblate traps for both ground and dark soliton excited states.