Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2007-09-18
Phys. Rev. A 76 (2007) 053604
Physics
Quantum Physics
7 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. A
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053604
Amplifying on a proposal by O'Dell et al. for the realization of Bose-Einstein condensates of neutral atoms with attractive $1/r$ interaction, we point out that the instance of self-trapping of the condensate, without external trap potential, is physically best understood by introducing appropriate "atomic" units. This reveals a remarkable scaling property: the physics of the condensate depends only on the two parameters $N^2 a/a_u$ and $\gamma/N^2$, where $N$ is the particle number, $a$ the scattering length, $a_u$ the "Bohr" radius and $\gamma$ the trap frequency in atomic units. We calculate accurate numerical results for self-trapping wave functions and potentials, for energies, sizes and peak densities, and compare with previous variational results. As a novel feature we point out the existence of a second solution of the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation for negative scattering lengths, with and without trapping potential, which is born together with the ground state in a tangent bifurcation. This indicates the existence of an unstable collectively excited state of the condensate for negative scattering lengths.
Main Joerg
Papadopoulos I.
Wagner Peter
Wunner Guenter
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