Stability and collapse of a coupled Bose-Einstein condensate

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2001-03-26

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Adhikari, S. K.

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Elsevier B.V.

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The dynamics of a coupled Bose-Einstein condensate involving trapped atoms in two quantum states is studied using the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation including an interaction which can transform atoms from one state to the other. We find interesting oscillation of the number of atoms in each of the states. For all repulsive interactions, stable condensates are formed. When some of the atomic interactions are attractive, the possibility of collapse is studied by including an absorptive contact interaction and a quartic three-body recombination term. One or both components of the condensate may undergo collapse when one or more of the nonlinear terms are attractive in nature. (C) 2001 Elsevier B.V. B.V. All rights reserved.

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Physics Letters A. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V., v. 281, n. 4, p. 265-271, 2001.