Intermittent implosion and shell-structure formation of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interaction

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  • 25 February 2000
Abstract
The collapsing dynamics of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with attractive interaction is revealed to exhibit two previously unknown phenomena. During the collapse, BEC undergoes a series of rapid implosions which occur {\it intermittently} within a very small region. When the sign of interaction is suddenly switched from repulsive to attractive by e.g., the Feshbach resonance, density fluctuations grow to form a shell structure.

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