Explosion of a collapsing Bose-Einstein condensate
Statistical Mechanics
2014-10-13 v1
Abstract
We show that elastic collisions between atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interactions lead to an explosion that ejects a large fraction of the collapsing condensate. We study variationally the dynamics of this explosion and find excellent agreement with recent experiments on magnetically trapped Rubidium-85. We also determine the energy and angular distribution of the ejected atoms during the collapse.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0007320,
title = {Explosion of a collapsing Bose-Einstein condensate},
author = {R. A. Duine and H. T. C. Stoof},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0007320},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Four pages of ReVTeX and five postscript figures