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Motion of a condensate in a shaken and vibrating harmonic trap

Y. Japha, Y. B. Band

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0204300

Abstract

The dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a time-dependent harmonic trapping potential is determined for arbitrary variations of the position of the center of the trap and its frequencies. The dynamics of the BEC wavepacket is soliton-like. The motion of the center of the wavepacket, and the spatially and temporally dependent phase (which affects the coherence properties of the BEC) multiplying the soliton-like part of the wavepacket, are analytically determined.

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