On Dispersive and Classical Shock Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates and Gas Dynamics

Details On Dispersive and Classical Shock Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates and Gas Dynamics On Dispersive and Classical Shock Waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates and Gas Dynamics

2006-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0603389v1

Phys. Rev. A 74, 023623 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

24 pages, 28 figures, submitted to Phys Rev A

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.74.023623

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a quantum fluid that gives rise to interesting shock wave nonlinear dynamics. Experiments depict a BEC that exhibits behavior similar to that of a shock wave in a compressible gas, eg. traveling fronts with steep gradients. However, the governing Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation that describes the mean field of a BEC admits no dissipation hence classical dissipative shock solutions do not explain the phenomena. Instead, wave dynamics with small dispersion is considered and it is shown that this provides a mechanism for the generation of a dispersive shock wave (DSW). Computations with the GP equation are compared to experiment with excellent agreement. A comparison between a canonical 1D dissipative and dispersive shock problem shows significant differences in shock structure and shock front speed. Numerical results associated with the three dimensional experiment show that three and two dimensional approximations are in excellent agreement and one dimensional approximations are in good qualitative agreement. Using one dimensional DSW theory it is argued that the experimentally observed blast waves may be viewed as dispersive shock waves.

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