2000/01/31 by M. Bijlsma, M. J. Bijlsma, E. Zaremba +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Bose gas #Bose–Einstein condensate #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Component (thermodynamics) #Condensed matter physics #Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope #Field (mathematics) #Non-equilibrium thermodynamics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Scattering #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #Thermal #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.62.063609
published as Phys.Rev.A62:063609,2000 · 28 pages, 11 figures. Changes made to the introduction, Sec. VI, Sec. VII, and included additional growth curves in Fig. 10
arxiv created 2000/06/13 · openalex publication_date 2000/11/15 · arxiv updated 2014/10/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study the dynamics of condensate formation in an inhomogeneous trapped Bose gas with a positive interatomic scattering length. We take into account both the nonequilibrium kinetics of the thermal cloud and the Hartree-Fock mean-field effects in the condensed and the noncondensed parts of the gas. Our growth equations are solved numerically by assuming that the thermal component behaves ergodically and that the condensate, treated within the Thomas-Fermi approximation, grows adiabatically. Our simulations are in good qualitative agreement with experiment, however important discrepancies concerning details of the growth behavior remain.