Interference of two Bose-Einstein condensates with varying initial conditions (Q2263684)

The authors study the one-dimensional time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation by numerical techniques: \[ \left [-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2}+\frac{1}{2}m\omega^2x^2+\lambda_{1D}|\psi(x,t)|^2\right]\psi(x,t) =\imath\hbar\frac{\psi(x,t)}{\partial t}, \] where \(\lambda_{1D}=\frac{4\pi\hbar a_sN}{ma^2}\) represents the interaction between atoms, \(m\) is the mass of a single atom, \(\omega\) is the frequency of harmonic trapping potential, \(N\) is the total number of atoms in the condensate, and \(a_s\) is the scattering length. \(a=\sqrt{\hbar/2m\omega}\) is the harmonic oscillator length. A four-order Runge-Kutta scheme is used accompanied by a high-order central space difference scheme.