Nonlinear Modes of a Macroscopic Quantum Oscillator
Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We consider the Bose-Einstein condensate in a parabolic trap as a macroscopic quantum oscillator and describe, analytically and numerically, its collective modes - a nonlinear generalisation of the (symmetric and antisymmetric) Hermite-Gauss eigenmodes of a harmonic quantum oscillator.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9907475,
title = {Nonlinear Modes of a Macroscopic Quantum Oscillator},
author = {Yuri S. Kivshar and Tristram J. Alexander and Sergey K. Turitsyn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9907475},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to the Physical Review Revised version (minor changes)