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In this paper we propose to apply the analogy between gravity and condensed matter physics to relativistic Bose-Einstein condensates (RBECs), i.e. condensates composed by relativistic constituents. While such systems are not yet a subject…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Serena Fagnocchi , Stefano Finazzi , Stefano Liberati , Marton Kormos , Andrea Trombettoni

We investigated the impact of Non-Hermitian gravitational potentials on the spatial distribution of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) wave functions. Through numerical solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation, we observed that the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Tie-Fu Zhang , Chengxi Li , Yitong Pei , Kai Liu , Wu-Ming Liu

We study the phenomenology associated to non-minimally coupled dark matter. In particular, we consider the model where the non-minimal coupling arises from the formation of relativistic Bose-Einstein condensates in high density regions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-05 Dimitar Ivanov , Stefano Liberati

We study certain stationary and time-evolution problems of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates of weakly interacting alkali atoms described by a nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation. We suggest a pseudospectral method involving Laguerre…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Paulsamy Muruganandam , Sadhan K. Adhikari

We study the effect of a logarithmic nonlinearity in the Schr\"odinger equation (SE) on the dynamics of a freely expanding Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The logarithmic nonlinearity was one of the first proposed nonlinear extensions to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Sascha Vowe , Claus Lämmerzahl , Markus Krutzik

We show how to vary the physical properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in order to mimic an effective gravitational-wave spacetime. In particular, we focus in the simulation of the recently discovered creation of particles by real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Tupac Bravo , Carlos Sabín , Ivette Fuentes

We investigate the dynamics of an effectively one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with scattering length $a$ subjected to a spatially periodic modulation, $a=a(x)=a(x+L)$. This "collisionally inhomogeneous" BEC is described by a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis , Boris A. Malomed , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We theoretically investigate the physics of interacting Bose-Einstein condensates at equilibrium in a weak (possibly random) potential. We develop a perturbation approach to derive the condensate wavefunction for an amplitude of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

We consider circular motion of a heavy object in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at $T=0{\rm K}$. Even if the linear velocity of the object is smaller than the Landau critical velocity, the object may radiate quasiparticles and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiromitsu Takeuchi , Makoto Tsubota , Grigory E. Volovik

We investigate the structure of quantum correlations in an expanding Bose Einstein Condensate (BEC) through the analogue gravity framework. We consider both a 3+1 isotropically expanding BEC as well as the experimentally relevant case of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Angus Prain , Serena Fagnocchi , Stefano Liberati

Nonlinear oscillations of a 3D radial symmetric Bose-Einstein condensate under periodic variation in time of the atomic scattering length have been studied analytically and numerically. The time-dependent variational approach is used for…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Ravil M. Galimzyanov , Marijana Brtka , Roberto A. Kraenkel

We discuss the mean-field approximation for a trapped weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and its connection with the exact many-body problem by deriving the Gross-Pitaevskii action of the condensate. The mechanics of the BEC…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Luca Salasnich

We analyze prospects for the use of Bose-Einstein condensates as condensed-matter systems suitable for generating a generic ``effective metric'', and for mimicking kinematic aspects of general relativity. We extend the analysis due to Garay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Carlos Barcelo , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser

We develop the multiscale technique to describe excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) whose characteristic scales are comparable with the healing length, thus going beyond the conventional hydrodynamical approximation. As an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Vladimir V. Konotop , Victor M. Perez-Garcia

We investigate the reduced dimensionality of highly anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in connection to the entanglement between its spatial degrees of freedom. We argue that the reduced-dimensionality of the BEC is physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Alexandre B. Tacla , Carlton M. Caves

In this article, we study Self-Similar configurations of non-relativistic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) described by the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation (GPE). To be precise, we discuss singular Self-similar solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-17 Sachin Vaidya

We consider the Gross-Pitaevskii(GP) model of a Bose-Einstein Condensate(BEC) for single-component and multi-component BEC. The pseudopotential for s-wave scattering between atoms is taken to be of width of the order of the s-wave…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-05 Abhijit Pendse

This paper presents a numerical study of the acoustic superradiance from the single vortex state of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The draining bathtub model of an incompressible barotropic fluid is adopted to describe the vortex. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-06 Betül Demirkaya , Tekin Dereli , Kaan Güven

The current article explores the problem of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in an anisotropic three-dimensional harmonic-oscillator potential, with positive effective interatomic interactions, and the analogue gravity acoustic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-05 B. González-Fernández , A. Camacho

We derive a generalized Gross-Pitaevski (GP) equation immersed on a electromagnetic and a weak gravitational field starting from the covariant Complex Klein-Gordon field in a curved space-time. We compare it with the GP equation where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Tonatiuh Matos , Eduardo Gomez