Tuning the Shape of the Condensate in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

B. Waclaw; J. Sopik; W. Janke; H. Meyer-Ortmanns

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.080602

Tuning the Shape of the Condensate in Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

B. Waclaw, J. Sopik, W. Janke, H. Meyer-Ortmanns

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Abstract

We investigate the conditions which determine the shape of a particle condensate in situations when it emerges as a result of spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry. We consider a model with particles hopping between sites of a one-dimensional grid and interacting if they are at the same site or at neighboring sites. We predict the envelope of the condensate and the scaling of its width with the system size for various interaction potentials and show how to tune the shape from a delta peak to a rectangular or paraboliclike form.

Original language	English
Article number	080602
Pages (from-to)	-
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	103
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.080602
Publication status	Published - 21 Aug 2009

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FORCE FLUCTUATIONS
PHASE-TRANSITIONS
BEAD PACKS
MODEL
AGGREGATION
SYSTEMS

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