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Dynamics of a degenerate Cs-Yb mixture with attractive interspecies interactions

Wilson, K.E.; Guttridge, A.; Liu, I-Kang; Segal, J.; Billam, T.P.; Parker, N.G.; Proukakis, N.P.; Cornish, S.L.

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I-Kang Liu

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Jack Segal jack.d.segal@durham.ac.uk
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T.P. Billam

N.G. Parker

N.P. Proukakis



Abstract

We probe the collective dynamics of a quantum degenerate Bose-Bose mixture of 133Cs and 174Yb with attractive interspecies interactions. Specifically, we excite vertical center-of-mass oscillations of the Cs condensate. We observe significant damping for the Cs dipole mode, due to the rapid transfer of energy to the larger Yb component and the ensuing acoustic dissipation. Numerical simulations based on coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations provide excellent agreement with experiment and additionally reveal the possibility of late-time revivals (beating), which are found to be highly sensitive to the Cs and Yb atom number combinations. By further tuning the interaction strength of Cs using a broad Feshbach resonance, we explore the stability of the degenerate mixture. We observe collapse of the Cs condensate mediated by the attractive Cs-Yb interaction when aCs < 50 a0, well above the single-species collapse threshold, in good agreement with simulations.

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Wilson, K., Guttridge, A., Liu, I., Segal, J., Billam, T., Parker, N., …Cornish, S. (2021). Dynamics of a degenerate Cs-Yb mixture with attractive interspecies interactions. Physical Review Research, 3(3), Article 033096. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.3.033096

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 9, 2021
Online Publication Date Jul 27, 2021
Publication Date 2021-07
Deposit Date Dec 18, 2020
Publicly Available Date Jul 28, 2021
Journal Physical Review Research
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 3
Issue 3
Article Number 033096
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.3.033096

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