Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate Dynamics in A Chaotic Potential
Roxanne Moran
Abstract
Abstract Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate Dynamics in A Chaotic Potential by Roxanne Kimberly Moran Master of Science in Physics University of California, Merced 2013 Professor Jay Sharping, Chair Recent theoretical work has shown that short-range contact and long-range dipolar interactions of a Bose-Einstein condensate provide the stability needed for the formation of a two-dimensional soliton in a chaotic optical-dipole potential. However, inclusion of the dipole-dipole interaction causes the BEC soliton to deviate from the classical trajectories of the trapping potential and to instead follow trajectories given by an effective potential that is equal to the convolution of the external trapping potential and density profile of the BEC in the xy plane.