Above-Barrier Reflection of Cold Atoms by Resonant Laser Light within the Gross-Pitaevskii Approximation
arXiv:0911.0156 · doi:10.1134/S1054660X09160038
Abstract
Above-barrier reflection of cold alkali atoms by resonant laser light was considered analytically within the Gross-Pitaevskii approximation. Correction for the reflection coefficient because of a weak nonlinearity of the stationary Schroedinger equation has been derived using multiscale analysis as a form of perturbation theory. The nonlinearity adds spatial harmonics to linear incident and reflecting waves. It was shown that the role of nonlinearity increases when the kinetic energy of an atom is nearly to the height of the potential barrier. Results are compared to the known numerical derivations for wave functions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with the step potential.
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