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arXiv:cond-mat/0011076 · Physical Review A

Semiclassical solution of the quantum hydrodynamic equation for trapped Bose-Einstein condensed gas in the l=0 case

Tamás Tasnádi

Published Jan 18, 2001• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this paper the quantum hydrodynamic equation describing the collective, low-energy excitations of a dilute atomic Bose-Einstein gas in a given trapping potential is investigated with the JWKB semiclassical method. In the case of spherically symmetric harmonic confining potential a good agreement is shown between the semiclassical and the exact energy eigenvalues as well as wave functions. It is also demonstrated that for larger quantum numbers the calculation of the semiclassical wave function is numerically more stable than the exact polynomial with large alternating coefficients.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.63.023614

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