Stability of Magnetically Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates

博史 森瀬

Luca Salasnich

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a gas has now been achieved. Alkali atoms ($^{87}Rb$, $^{23}Na$ and $^{7}Li$) have been cooled to the point of condensation (temperature of 100 nK) using laser cooling and trapping, followed by magnetic trapping and evaporative cooling. This important experimental result has also renewed the interest on theoretical studies of BEC. In this contribution we discuss the statistical mechanics of the trapped BEC at zero temperature. In particular, we study the stability of the condensate by using a variational method with local and non-local interaction between the particles.

Eric Cornell

Luc Bergé, Tristram J. Alexander, Yuri S. Kivshar

A general stability criterion is derived for the ground states of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which describes attractive Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a magnetic trap. These ground states are shown to avoid the collapse in finite time and are proven to be stable in two and three spatial dimensions.

Yongshan Cheng, Gong Rong-zhou

The evolution characteristics of the 2-dimension cake-shaped Bose-Einstein Condensate(BEC) soliton trapped in an anisotropy trap are investigated by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a variational approach.It is found that by introducing an optical lattice potential into certain direction in a columniform symmetrical magnetic trap,a BEC soliton can tend to be stable in that direction and its stability may increase due to the decrease of the soliton expansion in other directions as a result of the coupling effects on those directions.The effects depends on the number of atoms in the trap,the coefficient of the trap and the parameters of the optical lattice potential.

Jian Zhang