Coherent collapse of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate for different trap geometries
arXiv:0901.1300 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/11/5/055032
Abstract
We experimentally investigate the collapse dynamics of dipolar Bose- Einstein condensates of chromium atoms in different harmonic trap geometries, from prolate to oblate. The evolutions of the condensates in the unstable regime are compared to three-dimensional simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation including three-body losses. In order to probe the phase coherence of collapsed condensates, we induce the collapse in several condensates simultaneously and let them interfere.
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