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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 127, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.043002
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFA0300603, 2018YFA0307600]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [12074419]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB33000000]
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The study reveals the formation of a Borromean droplet in three-component ultracold bosons, where only ternary bosons can form a self-bound droplet due to collective many-body effects. Outside the Borromean regime, there is competition between ternary and binary droplets, leading to droplet phase separation. The transition between different droplets and gas phase can be conveniently tuned by boson numbers and interaction strengths.
We investigate droplet formation in three-component ultracold bosons. In particular, we identify the formation of a Borromean droplet, where only the ternary bosons can form a self-bound droplet while any binary subsystems cannot, as the first example of Borromean binding due to a collective many-body effect. Its formation is facilitated by an additional attractive force induced by the density fluctuation of a third component, which enlarges the mean-field collapse region in comparison to the binary case and renders the formation of a Borromean droplet after incorporating the repulsive force from quantum fluctuations. Outside the Borromean regime, we demonstrate an interesting phenomenon of droplet phase separation due to the competition between ternary and binary droplets. We further show that the transition between different droplets and gas phase can be conveniently tuned by boson numbers and interaction strengths. The study reveals the rich physics of a quantum droplet in three-component boson mixtures and sheds light on the more intriguing many-body bound state formed in multicomponent systems.
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