Métodos matemáticos para caracterização geométrica de condensados de Bose-Einstein dipolares: conectando armadilhas harmônicas e de casca
Pedro Paulo Vissotto de Paiva Diniz
Abstract
This thesis investigates the geometric properties of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates confined in harmonic and bubble-shaped traps. We develop a set of analytical and variational methods to describe the geometric shape of the condensate, the corresponding dipole-induced deformation, as well as the transition between filled and hollow clouds. Within the Thomas-Fermi regime in the Gross-Pitaevskii mean field theory, we present a convolution-based approximation and a generalized analytic solution to the Thomas- Fermi equation in the context of polynomial trapping potentials. Beyond mean-field, we explore the emergence of angular density modulations driven by quantum fluctuations and provide a variational model to estimate the number of droplets forming in the bubble trap.