Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-05-14
Physics
Condensed Matter
38 pages
Scientific paper
We study numerically the time-independent vector Gross-Pitaevskii equations (VGPEs) for ground states and time-dependent VGPEs with (or without) an external driven field for dynamics describing a multi-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at zero or very low temperature. In preparation for the numerics, we scale the 3d VGPEs, approximately reduce it to lower dimensions, present a normalized gradient flow (NGF) to compute ground states of multi-component BEC, prove energy diminishing of the NGF which provides a mathematical justification, discretize it by the backward Euler finite difference (BEFD) which is monotone in linear and nonlinear cases and preserves energy diminishing property in linear case. Then we use a time-splitting sine-spectral method (TSSP) to discretize the time-dependent VGPEs with an external driven field for computing dynamics of multi-component BEC. The merit of the TSSP for VGPEs is that it is explicit, unconditionally stable, time reversible and time transverse invariant if the VGPEs is, `good' resolution in the semiclassical regime, of spectral order accuracy in space and second order accuracy in time, and conserves the total particle number in the discretized level. Extensive numerical examples in 3d for ground states and dynamics of multi-component BEC are presented to demonstrate the power of the numerical methods and to discuss the physics of multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates.
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