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The transverse breathing mode of an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate

arXiv:cond-mat/0111455 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.250402

Abstract

We study experimentally the transverse monopole mode of an elongated rubidium condensate. Due to the scaling invariance of the non-linear Schrödinger (Gross-Pitaevski) equation, the oscillation is monochromatic and sinusoidal at short times, even under strong excitation. For ultra-low temperatures, the quality factor can exceed 2000, where and are the mode angular frequency and damping rate. This value is much larger than any previously reported for other eigenmodes of a condensate. We also present the temperature variation of and .

4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL

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