arXiv:0712.1617

Modulational instability in Bose--Einstein condensate in optical superlattice

E. A. Sorokina, Andrei I. Maimistov

Published Dec 10, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

We consider the Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in optical lattice, which is formed from two kinds of deep potentials. The tight-binding approximation was used. Steady state distribution of the probability amplitudes and the site population in the one dimensional optical superlattice were found. It was shown that this solution of the equations which describe the dynamics of the Bose-Einstein condensate in superlattice is unstable at the sufficiently high density of the bosons. The expression for increment of the modulational instability was found on base of the linear stability analysis. Numerical simulation demonstrates the evolution of the steady state distributions of bosons into the space array of the solitary peaks before the chaotic regime generation.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.0712.1617

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