Heating a dipolar quantum fluid into a solid

J. Sánchez-Baena (), C. Politi, F. Maucher, F. Ferlaino and T. Pohl ()
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J. Sánchez-Baena: Aarhus University
C. Politi: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
F. Maucher: Aarhus University
F. Ferlaino: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
T. Pohl: Aarhus University

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-6

Abstract: Abstract Raising the temperature of a material enhances the thermal motion of particles. Such an increase in thermal energy commonly leads to the melting of a solid into a fluid and eventually vaporises the liquid into a gaseous phase of matter. Here, we study the finite-temperature physics of dipolar quantum fluids and find surprising deviations from this general phenomenology. In particular, we describe how heating a dipolar superfluid from near-zero temperatures can induce a phase transition to a supersolid state with a broken translational symmetry. We discuss the observation of this effect in experiments on ultracold dysprosium atoms, which opens the door for exploring the unusual thermodynamics of dipolar quantum fluids.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37207-3

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