Bose-Einstein Condensates in Time Dependent Traps

2026/07/21 by Yvan Castin, Ralph Dum · 1 citation
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Abstract

We present analytical results for the macroscopic wave function of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a time dependent harmonic potential. The evolution of the spatial density is a dilatation, characterized by three scaling factors which allow a classical interpretation of the dynamics. This approach is an efficient tool for the analysis of recent experimental results on the expansion and collective excitation of a condensate.

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