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Bose-Einstein condensation has been achieved in a magnetically trapped sample of 85Rb atoms. Long-lived condensates of up to 10^4 atoms have been produced by using a magnetic-field-induced Feshbach resonance to reverse the sign of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. L. Cornish , N. R. Claussen , J. L. Roberts , E. A. Cornell , C. E. Wieman

We excite the lowest-lying quadrupole mode of a Bose-Einstein condensate by modulating the atomic scattering length via a Feshbach resonance. Excitation occurs at various modulation frequencies, and resonances located at the natural…

Gross-Pitaevskii equation for Bose-Einstein condensate confined in elongated cigar-shaped trap is reduced to an effective system of nonlinear equations depending on only one space coordinate along the trap axis. The radial distribution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Kamchatnov , V. S. Shchesnovich

Gross-Pitaevskii equation with gain is used to model Bose Einstein condensation (BEC) fed by the surrounding thermal cloud. It is shown that the number of atoms continuously injected into BEC from the reservoir can be controlled by applying…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Yuce , A. Kilic

The processes of merging and splitting dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates are studied in the nonadiabatic, high-density regime. Rich dynamics are found. Depending on the experimental parameters, uniform soliton trains containing more than…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. J. Chang , P. Engels , M. A. Hoefer

Generation of wave structures by a two-dimensional object (laser beam) moving in a two-dimensional two-component Bose-Einstein condensate with a velocity greater than both sound velocities of the mixture is studied by means of analytical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu. G. Gladush , A. M. Kamchatnov , Z. Shi , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed

As it was proposed and recently verified experimentally, the mechanism of Feshbach resonance in a condensate can create a second condensate component of molecules that coexists with the atomic condensate. In this work we investigate…

We have used an extension of our slow light technique to provide a method for inducing small density defects in a Bose-Einstein condensate. These sub-resolution, micron-sized defects evolve into large amplitude sound waves. We present an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Zachary Dutton , Michael Budde , Christopher Slowe , Lene Vestergaard Hau

Using Gauge transformation method, we generate rogue waves for the two component Bose Einstein Condensates (BECs) governed by the symmetric coupled Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations and study their dynamics. We also suggest a mechanism to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-25 P. S. Vinayagam , R. Radha , K. Porsezian

We rapidly change the scattering length a_s of a 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate by means of a Feshbach resonance, simultaneously releasing the condensate from its harmonic trapping potential. When a_s is changed from positive to negative,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-10 R. L. Compton , Y. -J. Lin , K. Jimenez-Garcia , J. V. Porto , I. B. Spielman

We study Faraday and resonant waves in two-component quasi-one-dimensional (cigar-shaped) collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates subject to periodic modulation of the radial confinement. We show by means of extensive…

We study the flow of a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate incident onto a narrow obstacle. We consider a configuration in which a dispersive shock is formed and propagates upstream away from the obstacle while the downstream…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-06 A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

Waves with different symmetries exist in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) whose dynamics is described by a system of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations. A first type of waves corresponds to excitations for which the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-22 A. M. Kamchatnov , Y. V. Kartashov , P. -É. Larré , N. Pavloff

We investigate the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a progressively bended three dimensional cigar shaped potential. The interplay between geometry and nonlinearity is considered. At high curvature, topological localization occurs…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-05 Claudio Conti

Under a unified theory we investigate the formation of various types of vector-solitons in two-species Bose-Einstein condensates with arbitrary scattering lengths. We then show that by tuning the interaction parameter via Feshbach…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Xunxu Liu , Han Pu , Bo Xiong , W. M. Liu , Jiangbin Gong

In a recent experiment, a Bose-Einstein condensate of Li7 has been excited by a harmonic modulation of the atomic s-wave scattering length via Feshbach resonance. By combining an analytical perturbative approach with extensive numerical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-08-09 Ivana Vidanovic , Antun Balaz , Hamid Al-Jibbouri , Axel Pelster

We study the emergence of Faraday waves in cigar-shaped collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates subject to periodic modulation of the radial confinement. Considering a Gaussian-shaped radially inhomogeneous scattering length,…

The properties of Bose-Einstein condensed gases can be strongly altered by tuning the external magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance. Feshbach resonances affect elastic collisions and lead to the observed modification of the scattering…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Stenger , S. Inouye , M. R. Andrews , H. -J. Miesner , D. M. Stamper-Kurn , W. Ketterle

We report on the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation of erbium atoms and on the observation of magnetic Feshbach resonances at low magnetic field. By means of evaporative cooling in an optical dipole trap, we produce pure condensates…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-22 K. Aikawa , A. Frisch , M. Mark , S. Baier , A. Rietzler , R. Grimm , F. Ferlaino

A Bose-Einstein condensate may be prepared in a highly elongated harmonic trap with negligible interatomic interactions using a Feshbach resonance. If a strong repulsive interatomic interaction is switched on and the axial trap is removed…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-08 A. Ruschhaupt , A. del Campo , J. G. Muga