Nonlinear Tight-Binding Approximation for Bose-Einstein Condensates in a Lattice

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2003-09-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309285v1

Phys. Rev. A 68, 023613 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.68.023613

The dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a deep optical lattice is governed by a discrete nonlinear equation (DNL). Its degree of nonlinearity and the intersite hopping rates are retrieved from a nonlinear tight-binding approximation taking into account the effective dimensionality of each condensate. We derive analytically the Bloch and the Bogoliubov excitation spectra, and the velocity of sound waves emitted by a traveling condensate. Within a Lagrangian formalism, we obtain Newtonian-like equations of motion of localized wavepackets. We calculate the ground-state atomic distribution in the presence of an harmonic confining potential, and the frequencies of small amplitude dipole and quadrupole oscillations. We finally quantize the DNL, recovering an extended Bose-Hubbard model.

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