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Fluctuation assisted collapses of Bose-Einstein condensates

Quantum Gases 2022-04-04 v1

Abstract

We study the collapse dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate subjected to a sudden change of the scattering length to a negative value by adopting the self-consistent Gaussian state theory for mixed states. Compared to the Gross-Pitaevskii and the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approaches, both fluctuations and three-body loss are properly treated in our theory. We find a new type of collapse assisted by fluctuations which amplify the attractive interaction between atoms. Moreover, the calculation of the fluctuated atoms, the entropy, and the second-order correlation function showed that the collapsed gas was significantly deviated from a pure state.

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@article{arxiv.2204.00246,
  title  = {Fluctuation assisted collapses of Bose-Einstein condensates},
  author = {Junqiao Pan and Yuqi Wang and Tao Shi and Su Yi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.00246},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages, 5 figures. Communications in Theoretical Physics (2022)

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