Critical numbers of attractive Bose-Einstein condensed atoms in asymmetric traps
- 30 October 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 66 (4)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.66.043619
Abstract
The recent Bose-Einstein condensation of ultracold atoms with attractive interactions led us to consider the novel possibility to probe the stability of its ground state in arbitrary three-dimensional harmonic traps. We performed a quantitative analysis of the critical number of atoms through a full numerical solution of the mean field Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Characteristic limits are obtained for reductions from three to two and one dimensions, in perfect cylindrical symmetries as well as in deformed ones.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev.Keywords
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