Hyperspherical approach to dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates beyond the mean-field limit

Abstract

We apply a hyperspherical formulation to a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate with dipolar and contact interactions. Central to this approach is a general correspondence between K-harmonic hyperspherical methods and a suitable Gaussian ansatz to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, regardless of the form of the interparticle potential. This correspondence allows one to obtain hyperspherical potential energies for a wide variety of physical problems. In the case of the dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate, this motivates the inclusion of a beyond-mean field term within the hyperspherical picture, which allows us to describe the energies and wavefunctions of excitations of self-bound dipolar droplets outside of the mean-field limit.

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