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Band structure, elementary excitations, and stability of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodic potential | M. Machholm
; C. J. Pethick
; H. Smith
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2 Dec 2002 | Journal: | Phys. Rev. A. 67(2003) 053613 | Subject: | Soft Condensed Matter | cond-mat.soft | Abstract: | We investigate the band structure of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional periodic potential by calculating stationary solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation which have the form of Bloch waves. We demonstrate that loops ("swallow tails") in the band structure occur both at the Brillouin zone boundary and at the center of the zone, and they are therefore a generic feature. A physical interpretation of the swallow tails in terms of periodic solitons is given. The linear stability of the solutions is investigated as a function of the strength of the mean-field interaction, the magnitude of the periodic potential, and the wave vector of the condensate. The regions of energetic and dynamical stability are identified by considering the behavior of the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional for small deviations of the condensate wave function from a stationary state. It is also shown how for long-wavelength disturbances the stability criteria may be obtained within a hydrodynamic approach. | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0301012 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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