Analytical investigation of focusing Bose-Einstein condensates
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2021
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Richberg, Roham
Martin, A M
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American Physical Society
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The focusing of a propagating untrapped Bose-Einstein condensate is studied theoretically. We use a scaling solution method comprising a time-dependent scaling function to analytically examine the dynamics of a falling Bose-Einstein condensate in different regimes of propagation including the expansion and compression zones. Our model is based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation which involves the interparticle interactions between atoms and, consequently, their influence on the focused structures. We investigate the focused profile characteristic factors such as the resolution and peak density for various cases of the focusing optical potential parameters as well as the factors associated with the moving cloud. Our results are compared with numerical solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
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Physical Review A
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