Numerical solution of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for Bose-Einstein condensation

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 318-342

  Bao, Weizhu ^a   Jaksch, Dieter ^b   Markowich, Peter A ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Approximate ground state solution; Bose Einstein condensation (BEC); Defocusing focusing nonlinearity; Gross Pitaevskii equation; Time splitting spectral method

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GROUND STATE; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TEMPERATURE;

APPROXIMATE GROUND STATE SOLUTION; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; BOSE-EINSTEIN-CONDENSATION; DEFOCUSING; DEFOCUSING/FOCUSING NONLINEARITY; GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATION; GROUND STATE SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; TIME-DEPENDENT GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATION; TIME-SPLITTING SPECTRAL METHOD;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION;

EID: 0037408314     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9991(03)00102-5     Document Type: Article

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