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Physical Review A

Parametric instability of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate driven by a strong time-dependent magnetic field

G. M. Genkin

Published Jan 17, 2001• 5 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the behavior of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) driven by a strong time-dependent resonant magnetic field. The external resonant field couples two hyperfine states via a one-photon transition. It is shown that a first-order parametric instability of a BEC appears if the local atomic number density exceeds a threshold value that is proportional to the driving field. It is shown that the spatial-dependent increment of instability is proportional to the square of the local atomic density. This instability is determined by the nonlinearity of the BEC associated with the short-range interactions between the atoms.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.63.025602

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