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Condensed matter systems, such as acoustics in flowing fluids, light in moving dielectrics, or quasiparticles in a moving superfluid, can be used to mimic aspects of general relativity. More precisely these systems (and others) provide…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Matt Visser , Carlos Barcelo , Stefano Liberati

The Gross-Pitaevskii equation, or more generally the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, models the Bose-Einstein condensates in a macroscopic gaseous superfluid wave-matter state in ultra-cold temperature. We provide analytical study of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-07 Luigi Galati , Shijun Zheng

We investigate the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation in ideal bosonic gases confined to axially-symmetric surfaces of revolution. The single-particle Schr\"odinger equation is formulated on a general surface and then explicitly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-05 A. Tononi , G. E. Astrakharchik

Starting from the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation we derive a 1D generalized nonpolynomial Schrodinger equation, which describes the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates under the action of a generic potential in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Luca Salasnich

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

We propose a versatile variational method to investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of one-dimensional magnetically-trapped Bose-condensed gases. To this end we employ a \emph{q}-Gaussian trial wave-function that interpolates between the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 Alexandru I. Nicolin , R. Carretero-Gonzalez

A simple model of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a box whose size varies with time is studied to determine the nature of adiabaticity in the nonlinear dynamics obtained within the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (the nonlinear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yehuda B. Band , Boris Malomed , Marek Trippenbach

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and their manifestations in astrophysical and cosmological contexts. Building upon the foundations of quantum statistics in curved spacetime, we derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Nader Haddad

We derive the equations for the non-linear effective dynamics of a so called pseudo-spinor Bose-Einstein condensate, which emerges from the linear many-body Schr\"odinger equation at the leading order in the number of particles. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-19 Alessandro Michelangeli , Alessandro Olgiati

Motivated by recent experiments on Faraday waves in Bose-Einstein condensates we investigate both analytically and numerically the dynamics of cigar-shaped Bose-condensed gases subject to periodic modulation of the strength of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 Alexandru I. Nicolin , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , P. G. Kevrekidis

We compare the exact evolution of an expanding three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate with that obtained from the effective scaling approach introduced in D. Gu\'ery-Odelin [Phys. Rev. A 66, 033613 (2002)]. This approach, which consists…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-30 David Viedma , Michele Modugno

A negative effective mass can be realized in quantum systems by engineering the dispersion relation. A powerful method is provided by spin-orbit coupling, which is currently at the center of intense research efforts. Here we measure an…

The cosmological constant is one of the most pressing problems in modern physics. We address this issue from an emergent gravity standpoint, by using an analogue gravity model. Indeed, the dynamics of the emergent metric in a Bose-Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-02-29 Stefano Finazzi , Stefano Liberati , Lorenzo Sindoni

In the analogue gravity framework, the acoustic disturbances in a moving fluid can be described by an equation of motion identical to a relativistic scalar massless field propagating in a curved spacetime. This description is possible only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-06 Bethan Cropp , Stefano Liberati , Rodrigo Turcati

Simulating cavity quantum electrodynamics in synthetic platforms offers a promising route to exploring light-matter interactions without real photons, while enabling the transfer of cavity-based techniques to other systems. Among such…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-31 Muhammad S. Hasan , Karol Gietka

We analyze in detail a previous proposal by Dvali and G\'omez that black holes could be treated as consisting of a Bose-Einstein condensate of gravitons. In order to do so we extend the Einstein-Hilbert action with a chemical potential-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-22 Jorge Alfaro , Domènec Espriu , Luciano Gabbanelli

We present a complete analysis of the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a symmetric triple-well potential. Our classical analogue treatment, based on a time-dependent variational method using SU(3) coherent states, includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 T. F. Viscondi , K. Furuya

We report on a recent result concerning the effective dynamics for a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates, a class of systems much studied in physics and receiving a large amount of attention in the recent literature in mathematical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Alessandro Olgiati

The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a lattice potential is used to model a periodic dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensate. Both two- and three-dimensional condensates are considered, for atomic species with either repulsive or…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Bernard Deconinck , Bela A. Frigyik , J. Nathan Kutz

We investigate the effects of spatial curvature for an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate confined in an elliptical waveguide. The system is well described by an effective 1D Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a quantum-curvature potential, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-23 L. Salasnich