Fragmentation of Bose-Einstein condensates
Abstract
We present the theory of bosonic systems with multiple condensates, providing a unified description of various model systems that are found in the literature. We discuss how degeneracies, interactions, and symmetries conspire to give rise to this unusual behavior. We show that as degeneracies multiply, so do the varieties of fragmentation, eventually leading to strongly correlated states with no trace of condensation.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- September 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.033612
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0605711
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhRvA..74c3612M
- Keywords:
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- 03.75.Hh;
- 03.75.Kk;
- 03.75.Lm;
- Static properties of condensates;
- thermodynamical statistical and structural properties;
- Dynamic properties of condensates;
- collective and hydrodynamic excitations superfluid flow;
- Tunneling Josephson effect Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials solitons vortices and topological excitations;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect
- E-Print:
- 16 pages, 1 figure, revtex4