Ultra-light dark matter

EGM Ferreira - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2021 - Springer
Ultra-light dark matter is a class of dark matter models (DM), where DM is composed by
bosons with masses ranging from 10^-24\, eV< m< eV 10-24 eV< m< eV. These models …

Frontiers in multidimensional self-trapping of nonlinear fields and matter

YV Kartashov, GE Astrakharchik, BA Malomed… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract 2D and 3D solitons and related states, such as quantum droplets, can appear in
optical systems, atomic Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) and liquid crystals, among other …

Quantum liquid droplets in a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates

CR Cabrera, L Tanzi, J Sanz, B Naylor, P Thomas… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Quantum droplets are small clusters of atoms self-bound by the balance of attractive and
repulsive forces. Here, we report on the observation of droplets solely stabilized by contact …

Self-bound quantum droplets of atomic mixtures in free space

G Semeghini, G Ferioli, L Masi, C Mazzinghi… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
Self-bound quantum droplets are a newly discovered phase in the context of ultracold
atoms. In this Letter, we report their experimental realization following the original proposal …

A new form of liquid matter: Quantum droplets

ZH Luo, W Pang, B Liu, YY Li, BA Malomed - Frontiers of Physics, 2021 - Springer
This brief review summarizes recent theoretical and experimental results which predict and
establish the existence of quantum droplets (QDs), ie, robust two-and three-dimensional (2D …

[PDF][PDF] Nonlinear waves in optical and matter-wave media: a topical survey of recent theoretical and experimental results

BA Malomed, D Mihalache - Rom. J. Phys, 2019 - rjp.nipne.ro
We present a survey of some recent theoretical and experimental studies on nonlinear
waves that form and propagate in a broad class of optical and matterwave media. The article …

Dynamics of one-dimensional quantum droplets

GE Astrakharchik, BA Malomed - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
The structure and dynamics of one-dimensional binary Bose gases forming quantum
droplets is studied by solving the corresponding amended Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Two …

Few-body Bose gases in low dimensions—A laboratory for quantum dynamics

SI Mistakidis, AG Volosniev, RE Barfknecht, T Fogarty… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Cold atomic gases have become a paradigmatic system for exploring fundamental physics,
which at the same time allows for applications in quantum technologies. The accelerating …

Two-dimensional vortex quantum droplets

Y Li, Z Chen, Z Luo, C Huang, H Tan, W Pang… - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
It was recently found that the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction to the mean-field
Hamiltonian of binary atomic boson condensates suppresses the collapse and creates …

Two-dimensional solitons and quantum droplets supported by competing self-and cross-interactions in spin-orbit-coupled condensates

Y Li, Z Luo, Y Liu, Z Chen, C Huang, S Fu… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We study two-dimensional (2D) matter-wave solitons in spinor Bose–Einstein condensates
under the action of the spin–orbit coupling and opposite signs of the self-and cross …