Growth-Collapse Cycles of a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interactions
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A Bose-Einstein condensate of atoms with attractive interactions exhibits growth and collapse cycles, when it is fed by a thermal cloud. Recently this phenomenon has been directly observed in a trapped Li-7 gas. We offer a quantitative explanation of the data, on the basis of a model proposed earlier. It is shown that the condensate wave function acquires a chaotic component after the first collapse, indicating superfluid turbulence.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0110498,
title = {Growth-Collapse Cycles of a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interactions},
author = {Kerson Huang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0110498},
year = {2007}
}
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5 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX