2002/12/25 by Yuki Kawaguchi, Tetsuo Ohmi
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #cond-mat.soft #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1143/jpsj.72.1118
published as Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, vol. 72, 1118 (2003) · 5 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2002/12/25 · openalex publication_date 2003/05/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
According to the adiabatic approximation atoms moving in a magnetic trap keep their magnetic states. We investigate the validity of this approximation for quantum condensates, where a change of field's direction generates effective interactions between hyperfine angular momentum states. Condensates in general traps are found to be stable because they are confined in the vicinity of the trap center. A decay of a condensate is observable in a trap with extremely large field gradient.