Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-1-2020

Publication Title

Scientific Reports

Volume

10

First page number:

1

Last page number:

9

Abstract

The breakup of a quantum liquid droplet is examined through a 4He cluster by removing the attractive tail in the interaction between some of the atoms in the system with the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo simulation. The ground-state energy, kinetic energy, cluster size, and density profile of the cluster are evaluated against the percentage of the atoms without the attractive tail. The condition for the cluster to lose its ability to form a quantum liquid droplet at zero temperature is found and analyzed. The cluster is no longer able to form a quantum liquid droplet when about two-thirds of pairs of attractive interaction are removed. The findings are helpful to the current studies on the formation of quantum liquid droplets from cold atoms.

Disciplines

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | Quantum Physics

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1.296 KB

Language

English

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