Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2008-10-08
Phys. Rev. A 79, 033601 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.79.033601
Quantum fluctuations in time-dependent, harmonically-trapped Bose-Einstein condensates are studied within Bogoliubov theory. An eigenmode expansion of the linear field operators permits the diagonalization of the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation for a stationary condensate. When trap frequency or interaction strength are varied, the inhomogeneity of the background gives rise to off-diagonal coupling terms between different modes. This coupling is negligible for low energies, i.e., in the hydrodynamic regime, and an effective space-time metric can be introduced. The influence of the inter-mode coupling will be demonstrated in an example, where I calculate the quasi-particle number for a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate subject to an exponential sweep of interaction strength and trap frequency.
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