Fig. 3: Emergence of density modulations in trapped condensates.
Our measured axial density ∣ψ∣∣(z)∣2 (orange points), observed for T = 76.5 nK and Nc = 13,400 condensate atoms, demonstrates the formation of a supersolid state and agrees well with the numerical simulation of the TeGPE (red line). On the other hand, equivalent simulations at zero temperature (blue line) disagree qualitatively and instead yield an unmodulated superfluid phase. The vertical error bars indicate the statistical uncertainties (one standard deviation) of the experimentally measured density.
