TY - JOUR
T1 - Fragmented metastable states exist in an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate for atom numbers well above the critical number of the gross-pitaevskii theory
AU - Cederbaum, Lorenz S.
AU - Streltsov, Alexej I.
AU - Alon, Ofir E.
PY - 2008/1/29
Y1 - 2008/1/29
N2 - It is well known that attractive condensates do not posses a stable ground state in three dimensions. The widely used Gross-Pitaevskii theory predicts the existence of metastable states up to some critical number NcrGP of atoms. It is demonstrated here that fragmented metastable states exist for atom numbers well above NcrGP. The fragments are strongly overlapping in space. The results are obtained and analyzed analytically as well as numerically. The implications are discussed.
AB - It is well known that attractive condensates do not posses a stable ground state in three dimensions. The widely used Gross-Pitaevskii theory predicts the existence of metastable states up to some critical number NcrGP of atoms. It is demonstrated here that fragmented metastable states exist for atom numbers well above NcrGP. The fragments are strongly overlapping in space. The results are obtained and analyzed analytically as well as numerically. The implications are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.040402
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.040402
M3 - Article
C2 - 18352243
AN - SCOPUS:38749126414
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 100
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 4
M1 - 040402
ER -