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- Cremon, Jonas, et al.
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Rotating Bose-Einstein condensates: Closing the gap between exact and mean-field solutions
- 2015
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Ingår i: Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics). - 1050-2947. ; 91:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When a Bose-Einstein-condensed cloud of atoms is given some angular momentum, it forms vortices arranged in structures with a discrete rotational symmetry. For these vortex states, the Hilbert space of the exact solution separates into a "primary" space related to the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii solution and a "complementary" space including the corrections beyond mean field. Considering a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate of harmonically trapped atoms, we demonstrate how this separation can be used to close the conceptual gap between exact solutions for systems with only a few atoms and the thermodynamic limit for which the mean field is the correct leading-order approximation. Although we illustrate this approach for the case of weak interactions, it is expected to be more generally valid.
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