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Excitation-assisted inelastic processes in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

D. Guery-Odelin, G. V. Shlyapnikov

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/9905420

Abstract

We find that inelastic collisional processes in Bose-Einstein condensates induce local variations of the mean-field interparticle interaction and are accompanied by the creation/annihilation of elementary excitation. The physical picture is demonstrated for the case of three body recombination in a trapped condensate. For a high trap barrier the production of high energy trapped single particle excitations results in a strong increase of the loss rate of atoms from the condensate.

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