Quasi one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate in gravito-optical surface trap
arXiv:1509.05987 · doi:10.1088/0953-4075/49/7/075302
Abstract
We study both static and dynamic properties of a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a quasi one-dimensional gravito-optical surface trap, where the downward pull of gravity is compensated by the exponentially decaying potential of an evanescent wave. First, we work out approximate solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for both a small number of atoms using a Gaussian ansatz and a larger number of atoms using the Thomas-Fermi limit. Then we confirm the accuracy of these analytical solutions by comparing them to numerical results. From there, we numerically analyze how the BEC cloud expands non-ballistically, when the confining evanescent laser beam is shut off, showing agreement between our theoretical and previous experimental results. Furthermore, we analyze how the BEC cloud expands non-ballistically due to gravity after switching off the evanescent laser field in the presence of a hard-wall mirror. There we find that the BEC shows significant self-interference patterns for a large number of atoms, whereas for a small number of atoms, a revival of the BEC wave packet with few matter-wave interference patterns is observed.
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