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The kinetics of nonequilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates are considered within the framework of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. A systematic derivation is given for weak small-scale perturbations of a steady confined condensate state. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-10 Yuri Lvov Sergey Nazarenko Robert West

Large scale numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation are used to elucidate the self-evolution of a Bose gas from a strongly non-equilibrium initial state. The stages of the process confirm and refine the theoretical scenario…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Natalia G. Berloff , Boris V. Svistunov

The thermodynamics of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the vicinity of infinite temperature is explicitly solved in the microcanonical ensemble by means of large-deviation techniques. A first-order phase transition between a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-08 Giacomo Gradenigo , Stefano Iubini , Roberto Livi , Satya N. Majumdar

We demonstrate the application of transition state theory to wave packet dynamics in metastable Schr\"odinger systems which are approached by means of a variational ansatz for the wave function and whose dynamics is described within the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-29 Andrej Junginger , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner , Markus Dorwarth

We consider in this paper a system coupling a linear quantum Boltzmann equation and a defocusing cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation. The Schrodinger equation reflects the dynamics of the wave function of the Bose-Einstein Condensate and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 Avy Soffer , Minh-Binh Tran

A two-dimensional generalized cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with complex coefficients for the group dispersion and nonlinear terms is used to investigate the evolution of a finite-amplitude localized initial perturbation. It is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Dian Zhao , M. Y. Yu

The aim of the present review is to introduce the reader to some of the physical notions and of the mathematical methods that are relevant to the study of nonlinear waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs). Upon introducing the general…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We numerically study the dynamics of Faraday waves in a pancake-shaped Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) subject to periodic modulation of the interaction. After the modulation starts, Faraday waves appear and, thereafter, the BEC enters the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-18 Kasumi Okazaki , Junsik Han , Makoto Tsubota

We study the behavior of perturbations in a compressible one-dimensional inviscid gas with an ambient state consisting of constant pressure and periodically-varying density. We show through asymptotic analysis that long-wavelength…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-27 David I. Ketcheson , Giovanni Russo

We consider Bose-Einstein condensation of noninteracting homogeneous three-dimensional gas in canonical ensemble when both particle number $N$ and total momentum $\mathbf{P}$ of all particles are fixed. Using the saddle point method, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-11 Andrey S. Plyashechnik , Alexey A. Sokolik , Yurii E. Lozovik

We show that a nonlinear Schr\"odinger wave equation can reproduce all the features of linear quantum mechanics. This nonlinear wave equation is obtained by exploring, in a uniform language, the transition from fully classical theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Chris D. Richardson , Peter Schlagheck , John Martin , Nicolas Vandewalle , Thierry Bastin

The occurrence of system-scale coherent structures, so-called condensates, is a well-known phenomenon in two-dimensional turbulence. Here, the transition to condensate formation is investigated as a function of the magnitude of the force…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-12 Moritz Linkmann , Manuel Hohmann , Bruno Eckhardt

At finite temperatures below the phase transition point, the Bose-Einstein condensation, the macroscopic occupation of a single quantum state by particles of integer spin, is not complete. In the language of superfluid helium, this means…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Dionisios Margetis

We study the equilibrium correlations of a Bose gas in an elongated three-dimensional harmonic trap using a grand-canonical classical-field method. We focus in particular on the progressive transformation of the gas from the normal phase,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-16 Michael C. Garrett , Tod M. Wright , Matthew J. Davis

We apply transition state theory to coupled Gaussian wave packets and calculate thermal decay rates of Bose-Einstein condensates with additional long-range interaction. The ground state of such a condensate is metastable if the contact…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-29 Andrej Junginger , Markus Dorwarth , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

We investigate the emergence of three-dimensional behavior in a reduced-dimension Bose-Einstein condensate trapped by a highly anisotropic potential. We handle the problem analytically by performing a perturbative Schmidt decomposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Alexandre B. Tacla , Carlton M. Caves

Quantum turbulence that exhibits vortex creation, annihilation and interactions is demonstrated as an exact solution of the time-dependent, free-particle Schr\"odinger equation evolved from a smooth random-phased initial condition. Relaxed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-08 Tzihong Chiueh , Tak-Pong Woo , Hung-Yu Jian , Hsi-Yu Schive

In field theory, particles are waves or excitations that propagate on the fundamental state. In experiments or cosmological models one typically wants to compute the out-of-equilibrium evolution of a given initial distribution of such…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-22 Basile Gallet , Sergey Nazarenko , Bérengère Dubrulle

The present work considers systems whose dynamics are governed by the nonlinear interactions among groups of 6 nonlinear waves, such as those described by the unforced quintic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Specific parameter regimes in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-13 J. W. Banks , T. Buckmaster , A. O. Korotkevich , G. Kovačič , J. Shatah

In trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), \emph{condensate growth} refers to the process in which an increasing number of quasi-particles are immediately transferred from the non-condensate state (the thermal cloud) into the condensate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Gigliola Staffilani , Minh-Binh Tran