Bose–Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases: Appendix. Fundamental constants and conversion factors
Bose–Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases: Appendix. Fundamental constants and conversion factors
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10.1017/cbo9780511755583.016
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2008-09
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C. Pethick;H. Smith
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and use them to determine the elementary excitations in a uniform gas and in a trapped cloud. We describe methods for calculating collective properties of clouds in traps. These include the Thomas–Fermi approximation and a variational approach based on the idea of collective coordinates. The methods are applied to treat oscillations in both spherically-symmetric and anisotropic traps, and the free expansion of the condensate. We show that, as a result of the combined influence of non-linearity and dispersion, there exist soliton solutions to the equations of motion for a Bose–Einstein condensate.