Quantum acoustic bremsstrahlung of impurity atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate

I.E. Mazets
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute RAS, St.-Petersburg, Russia
G.V. Shlyapnikov
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

We study the process of scattering of two impurity atoms accompanied by generation of an elementary excitation in a surrounding Bose-Einstein condensate. This process, unlike the phonon generation by a single impurity atom, has no velocity threshold and can be regarded as a quantum acoustic analog of a bremsstrahlung in quantum electrodynamics.


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