Dynamics of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates and its efficient and accurate numerical computation

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 758-786

  Bao, Weizhu ^a   Du, Qiang ^b   Zhang, Yanzhi ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Angular momentum expectation; Angular momentum rotation; Central vortex state; Condensate width; Energy; Gross Pitaevskii equation; Ground state; Rotating Bose Einstein condensation; Time splitting

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM EXPECTATION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM ROTATION; CENTRAL VORTEX STATE; CONDENSATE WIDTH; GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATION; ROTATING BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; TIME-SPLITTING;

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

GAS CONDENSATES;

EID: 33745667769     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/050629392     Document Type: Article

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