Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2007-03-09
Phys. Rev. A 77, 033613 (2008)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
30 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033613
The evolution of Bose-Einstein condensates is amply described by the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii mean-field theory which assumes all bosons to reside in a single time-dependent one-particle state throughout the propagation process. In this work, we go beyond mean-field and develop an essentially-exact many-body theory for the propagation of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation of $N$ interacting identical bosons. In our theory, the time-dependent many-boson wavefunction is written as a sum of permanents assembled from orthogonal one-particle functions, or orbitals, where {\it both} the expansion coefficients {\it and} the permanents (orbitals) themselves are {\it time-dependent} and fully determined according to a standard time-dependent variational principle. By employing either the usual Lagrangian formulation or the Dirac-Frenkel variational principle we arrive at two sets of coupled equations-of-motion, one for the orbitals and one for the expansion coefficients. The first set comprises of first-order differential equations in time and non-linear integro-differential equations in position space, whereas the second set consists of first-order differential equations with time-dependent coefficients. We call our theory multi-configurational time-dependent Hartree for bosons, or MCTDHB($M$), where $M$ specifies the number of time-dependent orbitals used to construct the permanents. Numerical implementation of the theory is reported and illustrative numerical examples of many-body dynamics of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates are provided and discussed.
Alon Ofir E.
Cederbaum Lorenz S.
Streltsov Alexej I.
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