Explicit finite-difference and particle method for the dynamics of mixed Bose-condensate and cold-atom clouds

DOI10.1006/JCPH.2002.7171MaRDI QIDQ1868565zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors P. Vignolo, M. L. Chiofalo, M. P. Tosi, Sauro Succi

Publication date 28 April 2003

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203029

zbMATH Keywords

particle methodBose-Einstein condensationfinite-difference method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Particle methods and lattice-gas methods (76M28) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Statistical mechanics of liquids (82D15)

Abstract: We present a new numerical method for studying the dynamics of quantum fluids composed of a Bose-Einstein condensate and a cloud of bosonic or fermionic atoms in a mean-field approximation. It combines an explicit time-marching algorithm, previously developed for Bose-Einstein condensates in a harmonic or optical-lattice potential, with a particle-in-cell MonteCarlo approach to the equation of motion for the one-body Wigner distribution function in the cold-atom cloud. The method is tested against known analytical results on the free expansion of a fermion cloud from a cylindrical harmonic trap and is validated by examining how the expansion of the fermionic cloud is affected by the simultaneous expansion of a condensate. We then present wholly original calculations on a condensate and a thermal cloud inside a harmonic well and a superposed optical lattice, by addressing the free expansion of the two components and their oscillations under an applied harmonic force. These results are discussed in the light of relevant theories and experiments.

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