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Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics

Collapse of the metastable state in an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate

Jae Gil Kim, Yoon-Hyuck Sean Choi, Eok Kyun Lee

Published Jul 12, 2002• 4 citations
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Abstract

The characteristic features of the collapse of the ground state in trapped one-component attractive Bose-Einstein condensates are studied by applying the catastrophe theory. From numerically obtained stable and unstable solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we derive the catastrophe function defining the stability of the stationary points on the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional. The bifurcation diagram and the universal scaling laws stemming from the catastrophe function show quantitative agreement with the numerical results.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.66.017201

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