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Quasi one dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in elongated traps exhibit significant phase fluctuations even at very low temperatures. We present recent experimental results on the dynamic transformation of phase fluctuations into…

We investigate the dynamical instability of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with higher-order interactions immersed in an optical lattice with weak driving harmonic potential. For this, we compute both analytically and numerically a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Wamba , S. Sabari , K. Porsezian , A. Mohamadou , T. C. Kofané

We predict the loss of superfluidity in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a combined optical and axially-symmetric harmonic potentials during a resonant collective excitation initiated by a periodic modulation of the atomic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Sadhan K. Adhikari

Using the axially-symmetric time-dependent mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation we study the Josephson oscillation in a repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate trapped by a harmonic plus an one-dimensional optical-lattice potential to describe…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Sadhan K. Adhikari

We present a 1D effective model for the evolution of a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate in time dependent potentials whose radial component is harmonic. We apply this model to investigate the dynamics and expansion of condensates in 1D…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Pietro Massignan , Michele Modugno

We investigate numerically conditions for order and chaos in the dynamics of an interacting Bose- Einstein condensate (BEC) confined by an external trap cut off by a hard-wall box potential. The BEC is stirred by a laser to induce…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-08 Roger R. Sakhel , Asaad R. Sakhel , Humam B. Ghassib , Antun Balaz

We investigate the collective excitations of a one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with repulsive interaction between atoms in a quadratic plus quartic trap. By using the variational approach, the coupled equations of motion for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guan-Qiang Li , Li-Bin Fu , Ju-Kui Xue , Xu-Zong Chen , Jie Liu

We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate which is split in a harmonic trap by turning up a periodic optical lattice potential. We evaluate the dynamical evolution of the phase coherence along the lattice and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Lorenzo Isella , Janne Ruostekoski

We consider the mean-field dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in rotating harmonic traps and establish several stability and instability properties for the corresponding solution. We particularly emphasize the difference between the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Jack Arbunich , Irina Nenciu , Christof Sparber

We analyze a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) - based free oscillation atom Michelson interferometer in a weakly confining harmonic magnetic trap. A BEC at the center of the trap is split into two harmonics by a laser standing wave. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Rudra P. Kafle , Dana Z. Anderson , Alex A. Zozulya

We report on the realisation of a stiff magnetic trap with independently adjustable trap frequencies, $\omega_z$ and $\omega_r$, in the axial and radial directions respectively. This has been achieved by applying an axial modulation to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Hodby , G. Hechenblaikner , O. M. Marago' , J. Arlt , S. Hopkins , C. J. Foot

We report on the observation of the confinement-induced collapse dynamics of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (dBEC) in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We show that for a fixed interaction strength the collapse can be initiated in-trap…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-26 J. Billy , E. A. L. Henn , S. Müller , T. Maier , H. Kadau , A. Griesmaier , M. Jona-Lasinio , L. Santos , T. Pfau

This chapter presents an overview of the properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a periodic potential. This system has attracted a wide interest in the last years, and a few excellent reviews of the field have already…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Smerzi , A. Trombettoni

The dynamical evolution of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a one-dimensional lattice potential is investigated theoretically in the framework of the Bose-Hubbard model. The emphasis is set on the far-from-equilibrium evolution in a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-09-08 Kristan Temme , Thomas Gasenzer

We show that a vector matter-wave soliton in Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into an optical lattice can escape from a trap formed by a parabolic potential, resembling a Hawking emission. The particle-antiparticle pair is emulated by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-22 Yu. V. Bludov , M. A. García-Ñustes

We study low-lying collective modes of a horizontally elongated 87Rb condensate produced in a 3D magnetic harmonic trap with the addition of a 1D periodic potential which is provided by a laser standing-wave along the horizontal axis. While…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Fort , F. S. Cataliotti , L. Fallani , F. Ferlaino , P. Maddaloni , M. Inguscio

We experimentally measured the ultra-narrow momentum width of an optical trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in situ based on matter-wave interference, which validates our previous theoretical work [arXiv: 2205.02416]. By sweeping the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-16 Angang Liang , Shuyu Zhou , Yu Xie , Mingshan Huang , Su Fang , Bin Wang , Liang Liu

The self-trapping phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in optical lattices is studied extensively by numerically solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Our numerical results not only reproduce the phenomenon that was observed in a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Bingbing Wang , Panming Fu , Jie Liu , Biao Wu

It is demonstrated that a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with all-repulsive inter-atomic interactions loaded into a radially symmetric harmonic trap supports robust non-coaxial vortices with approximately orthogonal vortex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Driben , V. V. Konotop , T. Meier