Instabilities and the roton spectrum of a quasi-1D Bose-Einstein condensed gas with dipole-dipole interactions

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We point out the possibility of having a roton-type excitation spectrum in a quasi-1D Bose-Einstein condensate with dipole-dipole interactions. Normally such a system is quite unstable due to the attractive portion of the dipolar interaction. However, by reversing the sign of the dipolar interaction using either a rotating magnetic field or a laser with circular polarization, a stable cigar-shaped configuration can be achieved whose spectrum contains a `roton' minimum analogous to that found in helium II. Dipolar gases also offer the exciting prospect to tune the depth of this `roton' minimum by directly controlling the interparticle interaction strength. When the minimum touches the zero-energy axis the system is once again unstable, possibly to the formation of a density wave.
7 pages, 6 figures. Special Issue: "Ultracold Polar Molecules: Formation and Collisions"

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/25369

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https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411678
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0411678
 The European Physical Journal D 31, 439 (2004)
 doi:10.1140/epjd/e2004-00146-7

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