Goldstone modes and bifurcations in phase-separated binary condensates at finite temperature

Abstract

We show that the third Goldstone mode, which emerges in binary condensates at phase-separation, persists to higher inter-species interaction for density profiles where one component is surrounded on both sides by the other component. This is not the case with symmetry-broken density profiles where one species is to entirely to the left and the other is entirely to the right. We, then, use Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory with Popov approximation to examine the mode evolution at T≠0 and demonstrate the existence of mode bifurcation near the critical temperature. The Kohn mode, however, exhibits deviation from the natural frequency at finite temperatures after the phase separation. This is due to the exclusion of the non-condensate atoms in the dynamics.