The properties of the ground state and the spectrum of elementary excitations of an ultracold rarefied three-dimensional Bose gas of particles with arbitrary nonzero spin are investigated. It is assumed that the bare interaction consists of two parts: a short-range isotropic interaction that is independent of spin orientation and a long-range anisotropic spin-spin interaction of dipole-dipole type. The Gross-Pitaevskii equation is obtained. It is shown using this equation that the renormalized interaction, determined by the contribution of high momenta, plays an important role in the formation of the spin structure of the ground state and the density dependence of the chemical potential. It is established that there exists a range of parameters of the bare-interaction pair potential where the ground state is ferromagnetic. Criteria for the stability of this state are found. An equation describing the dynamics of the spin density is obtained. The spectrum of elementary excitations is determined.
The properties of the ground state and the spectrum of elementary excitations of an ultracold rarefied three-dimensional Bose gas of particles with arbitrary nonzero spin are investigated. It is assumed that the bare interaction consists of two parts: a short-range isotropic interaction that is independent of spin orientation and a long-range anisotropic spin-spin interaction of dipole-dipole type. The Gross-Pitaevskii equation is obtained. It is shown using this equation that the renormalized interaction, determined by the contribution of high momenta, plays an important role in the formation of the spin structure of the ground state and the density dependence of the chemical potential. It is established that there exists a range of parameters of the bare-interaction pair potential where the ground state is ferromagnetic. Criteria for the stability of this state are found. An equation describing the dynamics of the spin density is obtained. The spectrum of elementary excitations is determined.
Properties of the ground state and the spectrum of elementary excitations are investigated for the low density ultracold spinor 3D Bose gas of particles with arbitrary nonzero spin. Gross-Pitaevskii equations are derived. Within the framework of the considering interaction Hamiltonian it is shown that the ground state spin structure and spin part of the chemical potential is determined by the renormalized interaction, being defined by the contribution of the virtual large momenta. The ferromagnetic structure of the ground state, and the equation of the phase, density, and spin dynamics are obtained from Gross-Pitaevskii equations.
This work concerns a theoretical study of a two-component ultra-cold bosonic gas of polarised magnetic dipolar atoms. The atoms interact by short-ranged contact interactions and long-ranged dipole-dipole interactions. The two components can correspond to two different spin-states of a single atomic species or two different atomic species, as realised in recent experiments. Here, we develop a general theory for the ground states and excitations of a two-component dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate. The ground states are described by dipolar Gross-Pitaevskii equations and Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations describe the excitations. We apply these theories to systems in 3D harmonic traps and a uniform planar potential. Specialised numerical methods are developed to provide accurate solutions of these equations, and to deal with the singular dipole-dipole interaction kernel. These methods involve spectral representations based on plane waves and Bessel functions. We also discuss the methods we used for obtaining ground state solutions of the nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional. Dipole-dipole interactions can favour spatial structure, as demonstrated in the recent observation of supersolid states of matter in a single-component dipolar gas. In the two-component system these interactions can also favour a ground state with a periodic order in the pseudo-spin density. A two-component system can be either miscible (components overlap) or immiscible (components are separated). Our focus here is in the spin-stripe state, which occurs in a flattened trap geometry and involves an immiscible stripe pattern along one of the weakly trapped or untrapped directions. We examine the dynamical stability conditions of the uniform miscible state in planar confinement, and produce an associated stability phase diagram. We identify the various instabilities and analytical criteria for estimating these. We focus on the occurrence of, and conditions that favour, density-roton or spin-roton excitations, anticipating that the softening of these excitations will lead to structured ground states. To characterize these excitations we introduce density and spin dynamical structure factors, which can be measured in experiments using Bragg spectroscopy. Building on the stability phase diagram we compute ground states where the immiscible state is unstable to spin-rotons, finding triangular and stripe immiscible states with a length scale set by the confinement and interactions. We find that the transition to the stripe state is continuous and coincides with the spin-roton softening in the uniform miscible state. We study the excitations of the spin stripe state which exhibits three gapless excitation branches arising from the spontaneous broken symmetries. We identify a balanced parameter regime, where the excitations exhibit a nonsymmorphic symmetry (a symmetry is nonsymmorphic when it is a combination of point-group operations with nonprimitive lattice translations, i.e. not an integer multiple of lattice constants), which is revealed in the density and spin dynamical structure factors. We also consider the dynamics of the system following a quench from the uniform to immiscible stripe states. In the early time dynamics, a spin-stripe state is formed in a such way that the stripe order only extends over small domains. In subsequent dynamics, these domain sizes grow as the system phase-orders towards its equilibrium state. We identify the relevant topological defects such as disclinations, dislocations and grain boundaries. Using ensembles of large scale simulations we show that dynamical scaling holds for the growth of order.
A dilute homogeneous two-dimensional (2D) Bose gas at zero temperature is studied with the method developed earlier by the authors. This method allows for considering renormalization of an arbitrary pairwise potential in a self-consistent manner, without the pseudopotential delta-function representation. Low-density expansions are derived for the chemical potential, ground-state energy, pair distribution function, kinetic and interaction energies. The expansion parameter is found to be a dimensionless in-medium scattering amplitude u obeying the equation 1/u+ln u=-ln(na(2)pi)-2gamma, where na(2) and gamma are the gas parameter and the Euler constant, respectively. It is shown that the ground-state energy is mostly kinetic in the low-density limit. This result does not depend on a specific form of the pairwise interaction potential, contrary to the 3D case. A new form of the 2D Gross-Pitaevskii equation is proposed within our scheme.
In the present chapter we consider the structure of the Bose–Einstein condensed state in the presence of interactions. Our discussion is based on the Gross–Pitaevskii equation, which describes the zero-temperature properties of the non-uniform Bose gas when the scattering length a is much less than the mean interparticle spacing. We shall first derive the Gross–Pitaevskii equation at zero temperature by treating the interaction between particles in a mean-field approximation (Sec. 6.1). Following that, in Sec. 6.2 we discuss the ground state of atomic clouds in a harmonic-oscillator potential. We compare results obtained by variational methods with those derived in the Thomas–Fermi approximation, in which the kinetic energy operator is neglected in the Gross–Pitaevskii equation. The Thomas–Fermi approximation fails near the surface of a cloud, and in Sec. 6.3 we calculate the surface structure using the Gross–Pitaevskii equation. In Sec. 6.4 we determine how the condensate wave function ‘heals’ when subjected to a localized disturbance. Finally, in Sec. 6.5 we show how the magnetic dipole–dipole interaction, which is long-ranged and anisotropic, may be included in the Gross–Pitaevskii equation and determine within the Thomas–Fermi approximation its effect on the density distribution. The Gross–Pitaevskii equation In the previous chapter we have shown that the effective interaction between two particles at low energies is a constant in the momentum representation, U 0 = 4π ħ 2 a/m .
Bose-Einstein condensates which are dominated by magnetic dipole-dipole interaction are discussed under spinful situations. We treat the spin degrees of freedom as a classical spin vector, approaching from the large spin limit to obtain an effective minimal Hamiltonian. This is a version extended from a nonlinear sigma model. By solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we find several novel spin textures where the mass density and spin density are strongly coupled, depending upon trap geometries due to the long-range and anisotropic natures of the dipole-dipole interaction.
This thesis contains theoretical studies of weakly interacting, trapped Bose-Einstein condensed gases. The main emphasis is on the rotational properties of these systems. A typical Bose-Einstein condensate reacts to external rotation by forming singly quantized vortices. By the word ”typical” we refer to a condensate with repulsive interparticle interactions and with a frozen spin degree of freedom. However, there are some atomic species for which the low-energy interactions are attractive. Moreover, the tuning of different condensate properties is relatively easy. For example, there are ways to experimentally change the effective interaction from repulsive to attractive. For an attractively interacting condensate the vortex is not the only possible rotational state but the sample may also experience rotation through its center of mass. In the first part of the thesis, we analyze some properties of a rotating attractive Bose gas at the zero temperature limit. First, we note that in order to maintain energetical stability, the gas has to be rotated in an external trap which is steeper than a harmonic trap. We study the system in an anharmonic quadratic + quartic potential. The rotating ground state phase-space is determined with analytical and numerical methods. If the interactions are strong enough, the rotating ground state appears to be a state with the rotating center of mass. On the other hand, at the limit of weak interactions the system experiences rotation by forming a multiply quantized vortex. We also determine the spectrum of elementary excitations for these quantum many-particle states. We find that the broken symmetry of the center of mass rotating state induces an additional zero-energy (Goldstone) mode and that the small oscillations of the ground state exhibit the decoupling between the center of mass and relative motions. If the spin of the atoms is allowed to change freely, a rich variety of topological excitations in condensates can be studied. External rotation is one of the tools for examining the excitations in spinor condensates. In a spinless scalar condensate the appearance of a quantized vortex is manifested by the vortex line in which the condensate density vanishes. In the plane perpendicular to the vortex line, one speaks of the vortex core for the density minimum. We study the properties of slowly rotated F = 1 spinor condensates and show that for ferromagnetic interactions the ground state is a coreless vortex. While the individual spin components may carry ordinary vortices the overall density of the system is coreless. We also study a method to create a point-like monopole structure in a ferromagnetic condensate by suitably imprinting vortices and solitons for different spin components of the condensate.