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Collective excitations of BEC under anharmonic trap position jittering
Collective excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate under periodic
oscillations of a quadratic plus quartic trap position has been studied. A
coupled set of variational equations is derived for the width and the
condensate wave function center. Analytical expressions for the growth of
oscillation amplitudes in the resonance case are derived. It is shown that
jittering of an anharmonic trap position can cause double resonance of the BEC
width and the center of mass oscillation in the wide range of the BEC
parameters values. The predictions of variational approach are confirmed by
full numerical simulations of the 1D GP equation.Comment: This paper contains a manuscript - SolAnJPB.tex and figures (fig1 -
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Resonances in a trapped 3D Bose-Einstein condensate under periodically varying atomic scattering length
Nonlinear oscillations of a 3D radial symmetric Bose-Einstein condensate
under periodic variation in time of the atomic scattering length have been
studied analytically and numerically. The time-dependent variational approach
is used for the analysis of the characteristics of nonlinear resonances in the
oscillations of the condensate. The bistability in oscillations of the BEC
width is invistigated. The dependence of the BEC collapse threshold on the
drive amplitude and parameters of the condensate and trap is found. Predictions
of the theory are confirmed by numerical simulations of the full
Gross-Pitaevski equation.Comment: 17 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Journal of Physics
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