Nonlinear Structures and Dynamics in the Bose Condensate

University Of Washington, Seattle WA

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Abstract

Previous investigation into the dynamics of a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate has revealed a number of interesting phenomena such as solitons and vortices. The current research is designed to examine the validity of the mean-field approximation previously employed by including correlation effects using a multi-configurational approach well known in quantum chemistry. The new method will be applied to condensates in optical lattices where transitions from delocalized to localized states are known to occur.