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arXiv:cond-mat/9909345 · Physical Review A

Liquid-gas phase transition in Bose-Einstein condensates with time evolution

A. Gammal, T. Frederico, Lauro Tomio, Ph. Chomaz

Published Mar 30, 2000• 51 citations
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Abstract

We study the effects of a repulsive three-body interaction on a system of trapped ultracold atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensed state. The stationary solutions of the corresponding s-wave nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation suggest a scenario of first-order liquid-gas phase transition in the condensed state up to a critical strength of the effective three-body force. The time evolution of the condensate with feeding process and three-body recombination losses has a different characteristic pattern. Also, the decay time of the dense (liquid) phase is longer than expected due to strong oscillations of the mean-squared radius.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.61.051602

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