A parabolic model for dimple potentials

DOI10.1088/0031-8949/88/03/035006MaRDI QIDQ2869996zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Melike Cibik Aydin, Haydar Uncu, Coskun Deniz

Publication date 17 January 2014

Published in Physica Scripta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.5438

Explicit solutions, first integrals of ordinary differential equations (34A05) Theoretical approximation of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34A45) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) Singular perturbations, turning point theory, WKB methods for ordinary differential equations (34E20)

Abstract: We study truncated parabolic function and demonstrate that it is a representation of the Dirac delta function. We also show that the truncated parabolic function, used as a potential in the Schr"{o}dinger equation, has the same bound state spectrum, tunneling and reflection amplitudes with the Dirac delta potential as the width of the parabola approximates to zero. Dirac delta potential is used to model dimple potentials which are utilized to increase the phase-space density of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a harmonic trap. We show that harmonic trap with a delta function at the origin is a limit case of the harmonic trap with a symmetric truncated parabolic potential around the origin. Therefore, we propose that the truncated parabolic potential is a better candidate for modeling the dimple potentials.

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