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arXiv:0710.4610 · Physical Review A

Damping of condensate oscillations of a trapped Bose gas in a one-dimensional optical lattice at finite temperatures

Emiko Arahata, Tetsuro Nikuni

Published Mar 13, 2008• 12 citations
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Abstract

We study damping of the dipole oscillation in a Bose-condensed gas in a combined cigar-shaped harmonic trap and one-dimensional (1D) optical lattice potential at finite temperatures. In order to include the effect of thermal excitations in the radial direction, we derive a quasi-1D model of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and the Bogoliubov equations. We use the Popov approximation to calculate the temperature dependence of the condensate fraction with varying lattice depth. We then calculate the Landau damping rate of the dipole oscillation as a function of the lattice depth and temperature. The damping rate increases with increasing lattice depth, which is consistent with experimental observations. The magnitude of the damping rate is in reasonable agreement with experimental data. We also find that the damping rate has a strong temperature dependence, showing a sharp increase with increasing temperature. Finally, we emphasize the importance of the radial thermal excitations in both equilibrium properties and the Landau damping.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.77.033610

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