https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2007-00361-6
Stability of two-dimensional, controlled, Bose-Einstein coherent states *
1
Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 57, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia
2
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università Federico II and INFN Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
Corresponding author: a djovanov@phy.bg.ac.yu
Received:
9
October
2007
Revised:
9
November
2007
Published online:
22
December
2007
Two-dimensional stability of a controlled Bose-Einstein condensation state, in the form of a nonlinear Schrödinger soliton [JETP Lett. 80 535 (2004)], is studied for the condensations with both repulsive and attractive inter-atom interactions. The Gross-Pitaevski equation is solved numerically, taking initialy a controlled soliton whose “effective mass” is several times bigger than the critical value for a weak collapse in the absence of a potential well, and allowing for reasonably large errors in the experimental realization of the trapping potential required by the theory. For repulsive and sufficiently weak attractive interactions, the controlled state is shown to remain stable inside a breathing potential well, for a time that is an order of magnitude longer than the characteristic periods of the forced and eigenoscillations of the soliton. The collapse is observed only for attractive interactions, when the nonlinear attraction exceeded the appropriate threshold.
PACS: 03.75.Lm – Tunneling, Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vortices, and topological excitations / 05.45.Yv – Solitons / 05.30.Jp – Boson systems
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