The symmetry breaking states and bifurcation of Bose–Einstein condensates in a double well
XinYan Jia, Weidong Li, Hiroshi Ezawa
An analytical approximation method to clarify the symmetry-breaking stationary solutions to the Gross–Pitaevskii equation with symmetric double-well external potential is presented. By this method, we can understand that each symmetry-breaking solution bifurcates from a symmetry-preserving solution as one varies the coupling constant of the nonlinear interaction, and predict the bifurcation point. Also, the method gives a good approximation to the energy eigenvalues of the lower states, symmetry-breaking as well as symmetry-preserving, as long as the nonlinear interaction is not too strong.
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical•May 22, 2007•1 citation