Dynamical instabilities of Bose-Einstein condensates at the band-edge in one-dimensional optical lattices
arXiv:0706.2744 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.77.012712
Abstract
We report on experiments that demonstrate dynamical instability in a Bose-Einstein condensate at the band-edge of a one-dimensional optical lattice. The instability manifests as rapid depletion of the condensate and conversion to a thermal cloud. We consider the collisional processes that can occur in such a system, and perform numerical modeling of the experiments using both a mean-field and beyond mean-field approach. We compare our numerical results to the experimental data, and find that the Gross-Pitaevskii equation is not able to describe this experiment. Our beyond mean-field approach, known as the truncated Wigner method, allows us to make quantitative predictions for the processes of parametric growth and thermalization that are observed in the laboratory, and we find good agreement with the experimental results.
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