Bifurcations, order, and chaos in the Bose-Einstein condensation of dipolar gases
arXiv:0802.4055 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/11/2/023017
Abstract
We apply a variational technique to solve the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for Bose-Einstein condensates in which an additional dipole-dipole interaction between the atoms is present with the goal of modelling the dynamics of such condensates. We show that universal stability thresholds for the collapse of the condensates correspond to bifurcation points where always two stationary solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation disappear in a tangent bifurcation, one dynamically stable and the other unstable. We point out that the thresholds also correspond to "exceptional points," i.e. branching singularities of the Hamiltonian. We analyse the dynamics of excited condensate wave functions via Poincare surfaces of section for the condensate parameters and find both regular and chaotic motion, corresponding to (quasi-) periodically oscillating and irregularly fluctuating condensates, respectively. Stable islands are found to persist up to energies well above the saddle point of the mean-field energy, alongside with collapsing modes. The results are applicable when the shape of the condensate is axisymmetric.
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