Modulated amplitude waves with non-trivial phase of multi-component Bose–Einstein condensates in optical lattices
Qihuai Liu, Pedro J. Torres, Mingyan Xing
We study the existence of modulated amplitude waves with non-trivial phase of a quasi-1D multicomponent Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) in the presence of an external periodic potential. Mathematically, such coherent structures are doubly periodic solutions, in space and time, of a coupled system of Gross–Pitaevskii equations. For a binary BEC, the weak interaction regime is tackled by means of the averaging method and regular perturbation theory. The case of strong particle interaction is covered by a simple rescaling argument. One of the components is stationary, while the second component has non-trivial phase, meaning that there is circulation of matter only of the second component. The case of three components is briefly discussed as well.
IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics•Oct 5, 2018•7 citations