Ground state of Rydberg-dressed Bose gas confined in a toroidal trap

Abstract

The experimental realization of Rydberg dressing technology in ultracold atomic systems provides another superior platform for studying novel states of matter and macroscopic quantum phenomena. In this work, based on the mean-field theory, we have investigated the ground-state phases of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate with Rydberg interaction and confined in a toroidal trap. The effects of Rydberg interaction and external potential, especially the Rydberg blockade radius, on the ground-state structure of such a system have been investigated in full parameter space. Our results show that the Rydberg blockade radius, which can be regarded as another controllable parameter, can be used to obtain a variety of ground-state phases. More interestingly, it is found that for weak Rydberg interaction, the Rydberg blockade radius breaks the spontaneous rotational symmetry of the system, leading to the formation of a discrete unit cell structure. For strongly interacting cases, it can be used to realize different order of discrete rotational symmetry breaking.