arXiv · cond-mat/0011165
Multi-mode description of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate
Abstract
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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K. Goral, M. Gajda, K. Rzazewski. 2001-01-16. Multi-mode description of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.8.000092
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