A mass and magnetization conservative and energy-diminishing numerical method for computing ground state of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2177-2200

  Bao, Weizhu ^a   Wang, Hanquan ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Continuous normalized gradient flow; Coupled Gross Pitaevskii equations; Energy diminishing; Ground state; Mass and magnetization conservative; Spin 1 Bose Einstein condensate

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; FLOW PATTERNS; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETS; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPIN DYNAMICS; STEAM CONDENSERS;

CONTINUOUS NORMALIZED GRADIENT FLOW; COUPLED GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATIONS; ENERGY-DIMINISHING; MASS AND MAGNETIZATION CONSERVATIVE; SPIN-1 BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 50049130980     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070681624     Document Type: Article

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