Growth dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a dimple trap without cooling
arXiv:1011.0296 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.83.013630
Abstract
We study the formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a cigar-shaped three-dimensional harmonic trap, induced by the controlled addition of an attractive "dimple" potential along the weak axis. In this manner we are able to induce condensation without cooling due to a localized increase in the phase space density. We perform a quantitative analysis of the thermodynamic transformation in both the sudden and adiabatic regimes for a range of dimple widths and depths. We find good agreement with equilibrium calculations based on self-consistent semiclassical Hartree-Fock theory describing the condensate and thermal cloud. We observe there is an optimal dimple depth that results in a maximum in the condensate fraction. We also study the non-equilibrium dynamics of condensate formation in the sudden turn-on regime, finding good agreement for the observed time dependence of the condensate fraction with calculations based on quantum kinetic theory.
v1: 9 pages, 7 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A; v2: 10 pages, 8 figures, fixed typos, added references, additional details on experimental procedure, values of phase-space density, new figure and discussion on effects of three-body loss in Appendix B (replaced with published version)
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