Collapse dynamics of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

2001/12/21 by L. Santos, G. V. Shlyapnikov · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #cond-mat

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.66.011602

4 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2001/12/21 · openalex publication_date 2002/07/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We analyze the implosion and subsequent explosion of a trapped condensate after the scattering length is switched to a negative value. Our results compare very well qualitatively and fairly well quantitatively with the results of recent experiments at JILA.

Citations

• Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor
• Intermittent Implosion and Pattern Formation of Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates with an Attractive Interaction
• Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atomic Hydrogen
• Three-Body Recombination into Deep Bound States in a Bose Gas with Large Scattering Length

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