Multi-mode description of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate

Details Multi-mode description of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate Multi-mode description of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate

2000-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011165v3

Opt. Express 8, 92 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, 3 eps figures included in the manuscript, final version published in the special issue of Optics Express in honor of

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We study the equilibrium dynamics of a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a box. In our approach we use a semiclassical approximation similar to the description of a multi-mode laser. In dynamical equations derived from a full N-body quantum Hamiltonian we substitute all creation (and annihilation) operators (of a particle in a given box state) by appropriate c-number amplitudes. The set of nonlinear equations obtained in this way is solved numerically. We show that on the time scale of a few miliseconds the system exhibits relaxation - reaches an equilibrium with populations of different eigenstates fluctuating around their mean values.

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