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Bosons with attractive interactions in a trap: Is the ground state fragmented ?

Oe. Elgaroey, C. J. Pethick

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9805144

Abstract

Possible fragmentation of a Bose-Einstein condensate with negative scattering length is investigated using a simple two-level model. Our results indicate that fragmentation does not take place for values of the coupling for which the system is metastable. We also comment on the possibility of realizing a fragmented condensate in trapping potentials other than an harmonic one.

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