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Ballistic expansion of a dipolar condensate

Stefano Giovanazzi, Axel Gorlitz, Tilman Pfau

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0211545

Abstract

We have studied the free expansion of a Bose condensate in which both the usual s-wave contact interaction and the dipole-dipole interaction contribute considerably to the total interaction energy. We calculate corrections due to dipolar forces to the expansion of such a condensate after release from a trap. In the Thomas-Fermi limit, we find that the modifications are to lowest order independent from the total number of atoms.

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