Phases and dynamics of an impurity immersed in one-dimensional quantum droplets

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Auteurs principaux: Diplaris, Dimitrios, Englezos, Ilias A., Theel, Friethjof, Schmelcher, Peter, Mistakidis, Simeon I.
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author Diplaris, Dimitrios
Englezos, Ilias A.
Theel, Friethjof
Schmelcher, Peter
Mistakidis, Simeon I.
author_facet Diplaris, Dimitrios
Englezos, Ilias A.
Theel, Friethjof
Schmelcher, Peter
Mistakidis, Simeon I.
contents We explore the ground-state properties of a single impurity immersed in a one-dimensional quantum droplet medium formed by a two-component Bose mixture. Relying on ab-initio simulations, we demonstrate that tuning the impurity-droplet interactions allows to controllably reshape the droplets density profiles and associated correlation patterns. For attractive impurity-medium couplings, the impurity becomes localized within the droplet which exhibits a density hump at the vicinity of the impurity, while repulsive interactions facilitate their phase-separation. Comparing our many-body results to the appropriate extended Gross-Pitaevskii description, we find adequate agreement for the droplet density profiles, with the effective field approach systematically overestimating impurity localization. Following a release of the external trap, we unveil that the sign and magnitude of the interactions between the impurity and the droplet hosts dictate the response of the three-component setting which experiences expansion unless strongly attractive intercomponent couplings are present. These results corroborate the role and presence of correlations in impurity-droplet mixtures and inspire future investigations on impurity physics for probing droplet configurations.
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spellingShingle Phases and dynamics of an impurity immersed in one-dimensional quantum droplets
Diplaris, Dimitrios
Englezos, Ilias A.
Theel, Friethjof
Schmelcher, Peter
Mistakidis, Simeon I.
Quantum Gases
We explore the ground-state properties of a single impurity immersed in a one-dimensional quantum droplet medium formed by a two-component Bose mixture. Relying on ab-initio simulations, we demonstrate that tuning the impurity-droplet interactions allows to controllably reshape the droplets density profiles and associated correlation patterns. For attractive impurity-medium couplings, the impurity becomes localized within the droplet which exhibits a density hump at the vicinity of the impurity, while repulsive interactions facilitate their phase-separation. Comparing our many-body results to the appropriate extended Gross-Pitaevskii description, we find adequate agreement for the droplet density profiles, with the effective field approach systematically overestimating impurity localization. Following a release of the external trap, we unveil that the sign and magnitude of the interactions between the impurity and the droplet hosts dictate the response of the three-component setting which experiences expansion unless strongly attractive intercomponent couplings are present. These results corroborate the role and presence of correlations in impurity-droplet mixtures and inspire future investigations on impurity physics for probing droplet configurations.
title Phases and dynamics of an impurity immersed in one-dimensional quantum droplets
topic Quantum Gases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26528