arXiv:0712.3672 · Physical Review A
Sinusoidal excitations in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in a trap
Priyam Das, Thokala Soloman Raju, Utpal Roy, Prasanta Kumar Panigrahi
Abstract
The nonlinear coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equation governing the dynamics of the two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (TBEC) is shown to admit sinusoidal, propagating-wave solutions in quasi-one-dimensional geometry in a trap. The solutions exist for a wide parameter range, which illustrates a procedure for coherent control of these modes through temporal modulation of the parameters, like scattering length and oscillator frequency. The effects of time-dependent coupling and the trap variation on the condensate profile are explained. The TBEC has also been investigated in the presence of an optical lattice potential, where the superfluid phase is found to exist under general conditions.