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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters
Published on: January 9, 2014
Mixtures of Bose gases confined in a ring potential
J Smyrnakis1, S Bargi, G M Kavoulakis
1Technological Education Institute of Crete, P.O. Box 1939, GR-71004, Heraklion, Greece.
Abstract:
The rotational properties of a mixture of two distinguishable Bose gases that are confined in a ring potential provide novel physical effects that we demonstrate in this study. Persistent currents are shown to be stable for a range of the population imbalance between the two components at low angular momentum. At higher values of the angular momentum, even small admixtures of a second species of atoms make the persistent currents highly fragile.
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