• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.104.063307
• Corpus ID: 236924365

Maintaining supersolidity in one and two dimensions

@article{Poli2021MaintainingSI,
  title={Maintaining supersolidity in one and two dimensions},
  author={E. Poli and Thomas Bland and Claudia Politi and Lauritz Klaus and Matthew A. Norcia and Francesca Ferlaino and Russell N. Bisset and Luis Santos},
  journal={Physical Review A},
  year={2021}
}

• E. Poli, Thomas Bland, +5 authors Luis Santos
• Published 5 August 2021
• Physics
• Physical Review A

We theoretically investigate supersolidity in three-dimensional dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. We focus on the role of trap geometry in determining the dimensionality of the resulting droplet arrays, which range from one-dimensional to zigzag, through to two-dimensional supersolids in circular traps. Supersolidity is well established in one-dimensional arrays, and may be just as favorable in two-dimensional arrays provided that one appropriately scales the atom number to the trap volume. We develop a tractable variational model–which we benchmark against full numerical simulations–and use it to study droplet crystals and their excitations. We also outline how exotic ring and stripe states may be created with experimentally-feasible parameters. Our work paves the way for future studies of two-dimensional dipolar supersolids in realistic settings.