Similarity Solutions and Collapse in the Attractive Gross-Pitaevskii Equation

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVE.62.6224MaRDI QIDQ6465732zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors A. V. Rybin, Gennadii Varzugin, Markus Lindberg, J. Timonen, R. K. Bullough

Publication date 6 January 2000

Abstract: We analyse a generalised Gross-Pitaevskii equation involving a paraboloidal trap potential in $D$ space dimensions and generalised to a nonlinearity of order $2n+1$. For {em attractive} coupling constants collapse of the particle density occurs for $Dnge2$ and typically to a $delta$-function centered at the origin of the trap. By introducing a new dynamical variable for the spherically symmetric solutions we show that all such solutions are self-similar close to the center of the trap. Exact self-similar solutions occur if, and only if, $Dn=2$, and for this case of $Dn=2$ we exhibit an exact but rather special D=1 analytical self-similar solution collapsing to a $delta$-function which however recovers and collapses periodically, while the ordinary G-P equation in 2 space dimensions also has a special solution with periodic $delta$-function collapses and revivals of the density. The relevance of these various results to attractive Bose-Einstein condensation in spherically symmetric traps is discussed.

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