Growth and Collapse of a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interactions
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- 9 March 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 80 (10), 2031-2034
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.80.2031
Abstract
We consider the dynamics of a quantum degenerate trapped gas of atoms. Because the atoms have a negative -wave scattering length, a Bose condensate of becomes mechanically unstable when the number of condensate atoms approaches a maximum value. We calculate the dynamics of the collapse that occurs when the unstable point is reached. In addition, we use the quantum Boltzmann equation to investigate the nonequilibrium kinetics of the atomic distribution during and after evaporative cooling. The condensate is found to undergo many cycles of growth and collapse before a stationary state is reached.
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