arXiv · 1210.4513
Stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for the Dynamical Thermalization of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Abstract
We present a theory for the description of energy relaxation in a nonequilibrium condensate of bosonic particles. The approach is based on coupling to a thermal bath of other particles (e.g., phonons in a crystal, or noncondensed atoms in a cold atom system), which are treated with a Monte Carlo type approach. Together with a full account of particle-particle interactions, dynamic driving, and particle loss, this offers a complete description of recent experiments in which Bose-Einstein condensates are seen to relax their energy as they propagate in real space and time. As an example, we apply the theory to the solid-state system of microcavity exciton polaritons, in which nonequilibrium effects are particularly prominent.
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I. G. Savenko, T. C. H. Liew, I. A. Shelykh. 2012-10-16. Stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for the Dynamical Thermalization of Bose-Einstein Condensates. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.110.127402
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