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We investigate the mean--field equilibrium solutions for a two--species immiscible Bose--Einstein condensate confined by a harmonic confinement with additional linear perturbations. We observe a range of equilibrium density structures,…

We analyze the dynamical stability of gap solitons formed in a quasi one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice. Using two different numerical methods we show that, under realistic assumptions for experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Karen Marie Hilligsoe , Markus K. Oberthaler , Karl-Peter Marzlin

We determine the leading shift of the Bose-Einstein condensation temperature for an ultracold dilute atomic gas in a harmonic trap due to weak disorder by treating both a Gaussian and a Lorentzian spatial correlation for the quenched…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Timmer , Axel Pelster , Robert Graham

We study the instability of a ring Bose-Einstein condensate under a periodic modulation of inter-atomic interactions. The condensate exhibits temporal and spatial patterns induced by the parametric resonance, which can be characterized by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-20 Chen-Xi Zhu , Wei Yi , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

Considering an effectively attractive quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate of atoms confined in a toroidal trap, we find that the system undergoes a phase transition from a uniform to a localized state, as the magnitude of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Kavoulakis

We use the quantum kinetic theory to calculate the steady state and the fluctuations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature. The system is divided in a condensate and a non-condensate part. A quantum mechanical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Jaksch , C. W. Gardiner , K. M. Gheri , P. Zoller

We consider the Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in optical lattice, which is formed from two kinds of deep potentials. The tight-binding approximation was used. Steady state distribution of the probability amplitudes and the site…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-12-12 Ekaterina A. Sorokina , Andrei I. Maimistov

Analyzing a Gross-Pitaevskii equation with cubic, quartic, and quintic nonlinearities through analytical and numerical methods, we examine the stability of two-dimensional (2D) trapless Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with two-, three-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-21 S. Sabari , K. Porsezian , P. Muruganandam

The dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate are examined numerically in the presence of a one-dimensional bichromatic optical lattice with external harmonic confinement. The condensate is excited by a focusing red laser. For this purpose,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-25 Asaad R. Sakhel

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with attractive two-body interactions in a cigar-shaped trap, initially prepared in its ground state for a given negative scattering length, which is quenched to a larger absolute value of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-11 Jake Golde , Joanna Ruhl , Sumita Datta , Boris A. Malomed , Maxim Olshanii , Vanja Dunjko

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

The dynamics of a metastable attractive Bose-Einstein condensate trapped by a system of laser beams is analyzed in the presence of small fluctuations of the laser intensity. It is shown that the condensate will eventually collapse. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Garnier , F. Kh. Abdullaev , B. B. Baizakov

It is proven that periodically varying and sign definite nonlinearity in a general case does not prevent collapse in two- and three-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equations: at any oscillation frequency of the nonlinearity blowing up…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Konotop , P. Pacciani

We report on the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) placed in an optical lattice whose phase is suddenly modulated. The frequency and the amplitude of modulation are chosen to ensure a negative renormalized…

The properties of systems with Bose-Einstein condensate in external time-independent random potentials are investigated in the frame of a self-consistent stochastic mean-field approximation. General considerations are presented, which are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Yukalov , R. Graham

It is shown that the quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate is experimentally accessible and rich in intriguing phenomena. We demonstrate numerically and analytically the existence, stability, and perturbation-induced dynamics of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Lincoln D. Carr , Mary Ann Leung , William P. Reinhardt

Dynamics of fluctuations in unstable Bose-Einstein condensates is analyzed by the solution of approximate operator equations. In the case of a condensate with a negative scattering length the present treatment describes a delay of collapse,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. A. Yurovsky

We discuss the recently achieved Bose-Einstein condensation for alkali-metal atoms in magnetic traps. The theoretically predicted low-energy collective oscillations of the condensate have been experimentally confirmed by laser imaging…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Luca Salasnich

Motivated by recent experimental observations (C.V. Parker {\it et al.}, Nature Physics, {\bf 9}, 769 (2013)), we analyze the stability of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one-dimensional lattice subjected to periodic shaking. In such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-08-06 Sayan Choudhury , Erich J Mueller