29 research outputs found
Phonon background versus analogue Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensates
We determine the feasibility of detecting analogue Hawking radiation in a
Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of atom loss induced heating. We find
that phonons created by three-body losses overshadow those due to analogue
Hawking radiation. To overcome this problem, three-body losses may have to be
suppressed, for example as proposed by Search et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92
140401 (2004)]. The reduction of losses to a few percent of their normal rate
is typically sufficient to suppress the creation of loss phonons on the time
scale of a fast analogue Hawking phonon detection.Comment: 4 pages, no figures, revised versio
Dark matter axions
The hypothesis of an `invisible' axion was made by Misha Shifman and others,
approximately thirty years ago. It has turned out to be an unusually fruitful
idea, crossing boundaries between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology.
An axion with mass of order eV (with large uncertainties) is one of
the leading candidates for the dark matter of the universe. It was found
recently that dark matter axions thermalize and form a Bose-Einstein condensate
(BEC). Because they form a BEC, axions differ from ordinary cold dark matter
(CDM) in the non-linear regime of structure formation and upon entering the
horizon. Axion BEC provides a mechanism for the production of net overall
rotation in dark matter halos, and for the alignment of cosmic microwave
anisotropy multipoles. Because there is evidence for these phenomena,
unexplained with ordinary CDM, an argument can be made that the dark matter is
axions.Comment: 12 pages, invited talk at the Workshop `Crossing the Boundaries:
Gauge Dynamics at Strong Coupling' in honor of Misha Shifman's 60th birthday,
March 14-17, 2009, in Minneapolis, M
Limits to the analogue Hawking temperature in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Quasi-one dimensional outflow from a dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensate
reservoir is a promising system for the creation of analogue Hawking radiation.
We use numerical modeling to show that stable sonic horizons exist in such a
system under realistic conditions, taking into account the transverse
dimensions and three-body loss. We find that loss limits the analogue Hawking
temperatures achievable in the hydrodynamic regime, with sodium condensates
allowing the highest temperatures. A condensate of 30,000 atoms, with
transverse confinement frequency omega_perp=6800*2*pi Hz, yields horizon
temperatures of about 20 nK over a period of 50 ms. This is at least four times
higher than for other atoms commonly used for Bose-Einstein condensates.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, replaced with published versio
Potential Harmonics Expansion Method for Trapped Interacting Bosons : Inclusion of Two-Body Correlation
We study a system of identical interacting bosons trapped by an external
field by solving ab initio the many-body Schroedinger equation. A complete
solution by using, for example, the traditional hyperspherical harmonics (HH)
basis develops serious problems due to the large degeneracy of HH basis,
symmetrization of the wave function, calculation of the matrix elements, etc.
for large . Instead of the HH basis, here we use the "potential harmonics"
(PH) basis, which is a subset of HH basis. We assume that the contribution to
the orbital and grand orbital [in -dimensional space of the reduced
motion] quantum numbers comes only from the interacting pair. This implies
inclusion of two-body correlations only and disregard of all higher-body
correlations. Such an assumption is ideally suited for the Bose-Einstein
condensate (BEC), which is extremely dilute. Unlike the hyperspherical
variables in HH basis, the PH basis involves only three {\it{active}}
variables. It drastically reduces the number of coupled equations and
calculation of the potential matrix becomes tremendously simplified, as it
involves integrals over only three variables for any . One can easily
incorporate realistic atom-atom interactions in a straight forward manner. We
study the ground and excited state properties of the condensate for both
attractive and repulsive interactions for various particle number.Comment: 36 pages, 7 included figures, plain late
Gap solitons in quasiperiodic optical lattices
Families of solitons in one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) Gross-Pitaevskii
equations with the repulsive nonlinearity and a potential of the
quasicrystallic type are constructed (in the 2D case, the potential corresponds
to a five-fold optical lattice). Stable 1D solitons in the weak potential are
explicitly found in three bandgaps. These solitons are mobile, and they collide
elastically. Many species of tightly bound 1D solitons are found in the strong
potential, both stable and unstable (unstable ones transform themselves into
asymmetric breathers). In the 2D model, families of both fundamental and
vortical solitons are found and are shown to be stable.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figure
Dipole Oscillations in Bose - Fermi Mixture in the Time-Dependent Grosspitaevskii and Vlasov equations
We study the dipole collective oscillations in the bose-fermi mixture using a
dynamical time-dependent approach, which are formulated with the time-dependent
Gross-Pitaevskii equation and the Vlasov equation. We find big difference in
behaviors of fermion oscillation between the time-dependent approach and usual
approaches such as the random-phase approximation and the sum-rule approach.
While the bose gas oscillates monotonously, the fermion oscillation shows a
beat and a damping. When the amplitude is not minimal, the dipole oscillation
of the fermi gas cannot be described with a simple center-of-mass motion.Comment: 17 pages text, and 15 figure
Collapsing Bose-Einstein condensates beyond the Gross-Pitaevskii approximation
We analyse quantum field models of the bosenova experiment, in which
Rb Bose-Einstein condensates were made to collapse by switching their
atomic interactions from repulsive to attractive. Specifically, we couple the
lowest order quantum field correlation functions to the Gross-Pitaevskii
function, and solve the resulting dynamical system numerically. Comparing the
computed collapse times with the experimental measurements, we find that the
calculated times are much larger than the measured values. The addition of
quantum field corrections does not noticeably improve the agreement compared to
a pure Gross-Pitaevskii theory.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Cosmic axion thermalization
Axions differ from the other cold dark matter candidates in that they form a
degenerate Bose gas. It is shown that their huge quantum degeneracy and large
correlation length cause cold dark matter axions to thermalize through
gravitational self-interactions when the photon temperature reaches
approximately 500 eV. When they thermalize, the axions form a Bose-Einstein
condensate. Their thermalization occurs in a regime, herein called the
`condensed regime', where the Boltzmann equation is not valid because the
energy dispersion of the particles is smaller than their interaction rate. We
derive analytical expressions for the thermalization rate of particles in the
condensed regime, and check the validity of these expressions by numerical
simulation of a toy model. We revisit axion cosmology in light of axion
Bose-Einstein condensation. It is shown that axions are indistinguishable from
ordinary cold dark matter on all scales of observational interest, except when
they thermalize or rethermalize. The rethermalization of axions that are about
to fall in a galactic potential well causes them to acquire net overall
rotation as they go to the lowest energy state consistent with the total
angular momentum they acquired by tidal torquing. This phenomenon explains the
occurrence of caustic rings of dark matter in galactic halos. We find that
photons may reach thermal contact with axions and investigate the implications
of this possibility for the measurements of cosmological parameters.Comment: 38 pages, 1 figur
Monopole Oscillations and Dampings in Boson and Fermion Mixture in the Time-Dependent Gross-Pitaevskii and Vlasov Equations
We construct a dynamical model for the time evolution of the boson-fermion
coexistence system. The dynamics of bosons and fermions are formulated with the
time-dependent Gross-Pitaevsky equation and the Vlasov equation. We thus study
the monopole oscillation in the bose-fermi mixture. We find that large damping
exists for fermion oscillations in the mixed system even at zero temperature.Comment: 16 pages text and 12 figure
Sinusoidal Excitations in Two Component Bose-Einstein Condensates
The non-linear coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equation governing the dynamics of
the two component Bose-Einstein condensate (TBEC) is shown to admit pure
sinusoidal, propagating wave solutions in quasi one dimensional geometry. These
solutions, which exist for a wide parameter range, are then investigated in the
presence of a harmonic oscillator trap with time dependent scattering length.
This illustrates the procedure for coherent control of these modes through
temporal modulation of the parameters, like scattering length and oscillator
frequency. We subsequently analyzed this system in an optical lattice, where
the occurrence of an irreversible phase transition from superfluid to insulator
phase is seen.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur