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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 5: Quantengase (Bose-Einstein-Kondensation)
Q 5.6: Talk
Monday, March 19, 2007, 15:30–15:45, 6J
Transport of Bose-Einstein condensates beyond the Gross-Pitaevskii approach — •Thomas Ernst1, Michael Hartung1, Tobias Paul2, and Peter Schlagheck1 — 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg — 2Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université Paris Sud, Orsay
We study the transport of Bose-Einstein condensates through scattering potentials in quasi one-dimensional waveguides. While our previous works used the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to calculate this process, we employ an approach which goes beyond this mean field theory and which is able to take into account excitations of the condensate as well as its depletion rate. This approach is based on a cumulant expansion [1], where we use a truncation scheme that is formally valid for weak interactions and a large number of atoms. We apply it to the scattering problem of a propagating BEC on a double barrier potential, where resonant transmission of the condensate takes place via the population of dynamically unstable scattering states. Our results confirm the validity of previous calculations of these processes based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation [2].
T. Köhler and K. Burnett, Phys. Rev. A 65, 033601 (2002)
T. Paul, K. Richter and P. Schlagheck, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 020404 (2005)