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Superfluidity versus Bloch Oscillations in Confined Atomic Gases

Superfluidity versus Bloch Oscillations in Confined Atomic Gases

We study the superfluid properties of (quasi) one-dimensional bosonic atom gases/liquids in traps with finite geometries in the presence of strong quantum fluctuations. Driving the condensate with a moving defect we find the nucleation rate for phase slips using instanton techniques. While phase slips are quenched in a ring resulting …