Roton Excitations in an Oblate Dipolar Quantum Gas

We observe signatures of radial and angular roton excitations around a droplet crystallization transition in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. In situ measurements are used to characterize the density fluctuations near this transition. The static structure factor is extracted and used to identify t...

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Main Authors: Schmidt, J-N (Author), Hertkorn, J (Author), Guo, M (Author), Böttcher, F (Author), Schmidt, M (Author), Ng, KSH (Author), Graham, SD (Author), Langen, T (Author), Zwierlein, M (Author), Pfau, T (Author)
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Language:English
Published: American Physical Society (APS), 2022-05-04T18:02:20Z.
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520 |a We observe signatures of radial and angular roton excitations around a droplet crystallization transition in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. In situ measurements are used to characterize the density fluctuations near this transition. The static structure factor is extracted and used to identify the radial and angular roton excitations by their characteristic symmetries. These fluctuations peak as a function of the interaction strength indicating the crystallization transition of the system. We compare our observations to a theoretically calculated excitation spectrum allowing us to connect the crystallization mechanism with the softening of the angular roton modes. 
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