Smoothing effect and delocalization of interacting Bose-Einstein condensates in random potentials

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dc.creatorSanchez-Palencia, Laurent
dc.date2006-09-02
dc.date2006-11-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:23:25Z
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dc.descriptionWe theoretically investigate the physics of interacting Bose-Einstein condensates at equilibrium in a weak (possibly random) potential. We develop a perturbation approach to derive the condensate wavefunction for an amplitude of the potential smaller than the chemical potential of the condensate and for an arbitrary spatial variation scale of the potential. Applying this theory to disordered potentials, we find in particular that, if the healing length is smaller than the correlation length of the disorder, the condensate assumes a delocalized Thomas-Fermi profile. In the opposite situation where the correlation length is smaller than the healing length, we show that the random potential can be significantly smoothed and, in the meanfield regime, the condensate wavefunction can remain delocalized, even for very small correlation lengths of the disorder.
dc.descriptionThe word "screening" has been changed to "smoothing" to avoid confusions with other effects discussed in the literature. This does not affect the content of paper, nor the results, nor the physical discussion
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609036
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609036
dc.identifierPhysical Review A 74 (2006) 053625
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevA.74.053625
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/115971
dc.subjectOther Condensed Matter
dc.titleSmoothing effect and delocalization of interacting Bose-Einstein condensates in random potentials
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