We present a formal derivation of the mean-field expansion for dilute Bose–Einstein condensates with two-particle interaction potentials which are weak and finite-range, but otherwise arbitrary. The expansion allows for a controlled investigation of the impact of microscopic interaction details (e.g. the scaling behavior) on the mean-field approach and the induced higher-order corrections beyond the s-wave scattering approximation.
This paper analyzes the properties of the two-component Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) with long-range monopolar interaction by means of Thomas–Fermi approximation (TFA). The effects of long-range monopolar interaction, inter-component short-range s-wave scattering, and particle numbers on the density profiles and phase separation of BECs are investigated. It is shown that atoms with the small intra-component s-wave scattering length are squeezed out when the monopolar interaction of these atoms is not large enough, and the density profile will be compressed when corresponding monopolar interaction is increased. Effective zero interaction point that the s-wave scattering repulsive interaction is neutralized by monopolar attractive interaction, is found. Varying of particle numbers will cause the transformation between phase separation and faint phase separation (or mixture).
We briefly review our recent work on spatial tuning of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). We first study spatially periodic tuning of the s-wave scattering length for controlling the propagation of a BEC matter wave, and find matter wave limiting processing and bistability. Second, we show that a stable BEC with natural attractive interaction could be formed by tuning the s -wave scattering length with a Gaussian optical field, but the condensed atom number should be less than a critical value. Further, we apply Thomas-Fermi approximation to obtain a formula for this critical value.
Using Crank–Nicolson method, we calculate ground state wave functions of two-component dipolar Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) and show that, due to dipole–dipole interaction (DDI), the condensate mixture displays anisotropic phase separation. The effects of DDI, inter-component s-wave scattering, strength of trap potential and particle numbers on the density profiles are investigated. Three types of two-component profiles are present, first cigar, along z-axis and concentric torus, second pancake (or blood cell), in xy-plane, and two non-uniform ellipsoid, separated by the pancake and third two dumbbell shapes.
We derive bounds to the absolute value of the error that is made in variational estimates of scattering phase shifts. These bounds, like the variational estimates, are second order in 'small' quantities and are, in this respect, an improvement on similar but first-order error bounds derived previously by Bardsley, Gerjuoy, and Sukumar. The s-wave scattering by a square well potential, in the Born approximation, and by an exponential potential, using a many parameter trial function, are used to illustrate the results.
We consider the scattering of two dressed excitations in the antiferromagnetic XXZ spin-1/2 chain and show that it is equivalent to the S-wave scattering problem for a free particle on the certain quantum symmetric space “quantum hyperboloid” related to the non-compact quantum group SU q (1, 1).
MEAN-FIELD EXPANSION IN BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATES WITH FINITE-RANGE INTERACTIONS