Interaction-driven effects on two-component Bose-Einstein condensates
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We investigate the role of the interparticle-interaction strength in the distribution of two species of atoms inside a condensate. We focus upon the study of systems for which the minima of the trapping potentials for the species are displaced from each other by a distance that is small compared to the size of the total condensate. We show that in a small range of the interparticle-interaction strength the distribution of species undergoes dramatic changes, and exhibits a variety of different features. We demonstrate that this behavior can be easily understood in terms of the Thomas-Fermi approximation. This effect may be useful in experimentally determining the values of the scattering lengths.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0202025,
title = {Interaction-driven effects on two-component Bose-Einstein condensates},
author = {D. M. Jezek and P. Capuzzi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0202025},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, revtex4