Spatial chaos of trapped Bose–Einstein condensate in one-dimensional weak optical lattice potential
Guishu Chong, Wenhua Hai, Qiongtao Xie
The spatially chaotic attractor in an elongated cloud of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms perturbed by a weak optical lattice potential is studied. The analytical insolvability and numerical incomputability of the atomic number density are revealed by a perturbed solution that illustrates the unpredictability of the deterministic chaos. Although this could lead the nonphysical explosion and unboundedness to the numerical solution, the theoretical analysis offers a criterion to avoid them. Moreover, the velocity field is investigated that exhibits the superfluid property of the chaotic system.
Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science•Mar 19, 2004•66 citations