Bifurcations and exceptional points in a PT-symmetric dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/49/48/485301zbMATH Open1354.81021arXiv1605.01927OpenAlexW2346738368MaRDI QIDQ3178745FDOQ3178745

Jörg Main, Günter Wunner, Holger Cartarius, Robin Gutöhrlein

Publication date: 20 December 2016

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the bifurcation structure of stationary states in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate located in an external PT-symmetric potential. The imaginary part of this external potential allows for the effective description of in- and out-coupling of particles. To unveil the complete bifurcation structure and the properties of the exceptional points we perform an analytical continuation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which is used to describe the system. We use an elegant and numerically efficient method for the analytical continuation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with dipolar interactions containing bicomplex numbers. The Bose-Einstein condensate with dipole interaction shows a much richer bifurcation scenario than a condensate without long-range interactions. The inclusion of analytically continued states can also explain property changes of bifurcation points which were hidden before, and allows for the examination of the properties of the exceptional points associated with the branch points. With the new analytically continued states we are able to prove the existence of an exceptional point of fifth order.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.01927

Recommendations

• Bifurcations and exceptional points in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates
• Stationary states of a \(PT\) symmetric two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate
• Eigenvalue structure of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a \(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetric double well
• Spectral singularities in \(\mathcal {PT}\)-symmetric Bose-Einstein condensates
• A Bose-Einstein condensate in a \(\mathscr{PT}\) symmetric double well

zbMATH Keywords

analytic continuationbifurcationexceptional pointBose-Einstein condensate\(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetrydipolar Bose-Einstein condensatebicomplex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26)

Cited In (10)

• Stability and collisions of quantum droplets in \(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetric dual-core couplers
• Non-Hermitian time-dependent perturbation theory: asymmetric transitions and transitionless interactions
• Steady-state/Hopf mode interaction at a symmetry-breaking Takens-Bogdanov point
• Bicomplex harmonic and isotonic oscillators: the excited states
• On the quantum mechanics of bicomplex Hamiltonian system
• Unitary unfoldings of a Bose–Hubbard exceptional point with and without particle number conservation
• Simple reciprocal electric circuit exhibiting exceptional point of degeneracy
• Floquet exceptional points and chirality in non-Hermitian Hamiltonians
• Multicomplex solitons
• Bicomplex modules with indefinite inner product

This page was built for publication: Bifurcations and exceptional points in a \(\mathcal{PT}\)-symmetric dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3178745)