Collapse and stable self-trapping for Bose-Einstein condensates with 1/r^b type attractive interatomic interaction potential
Abstract
We consider dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates with long-range attractive interaction proportional to and arbitrary angular dependence. It is shown exactly that collapse of Bose-Einstein condensate without contact interactions is possible only for . Case is critical and requires number of particles to exceed critical value to allow collapse. Critical collapse in that case is strong one trapping into collapsing region a finite number of particles. Case is supercritical with expected weak collapse which traps rapidly decreasing number of particles during approach to collapse. For singularity at is not strong enough to allow collapse but attractive interaction admits stable self-trapping even in absence of external trapping potential.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1002.1469,
title = {Collapse and stable self-trapping for Bose-Einstein condensates with 1/r^b type attractive interatomic interaction potential},
author = {Pavel M. Lushnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.1469},
year = {2010}
}