Analysis beyond the Thomas-Fermi approximation of the density profiles of a miscible two-component Bose-Einstein condensate
Juan Polo, V. Ahufinger, Peter Mason +3 more
We investigate a harmonically trapped two-component Bose-Einstein condensate within the miscible regime, close to its boundaries, for different ratios of effective intra- and interspecies interactions. We derive analytically a universal equation for the density around the different boundaries in one, two, and three dimensions, for both the coexisting and spatially separated regimes. We also present a general procedure to solve the Thomas-Fermi approximation in all three spatial dimensionalities, reducing the complexity of the Thomas-Fermi problem for the spatially separated case in one and three dimensions to a single numerical inversion. Finally, we analytically determine the frontier between the two different regimes of the system.
arXiv:1502.05940•Physical Review A•May 27, 2015•28 citations