Landau damping of collective modes in a harmonically trapped Bose--Einstein condensate
Ma Xiao-Dong(马晓栋)a,b), Zhou Yu(周昱)a), Ma Yong-Li(马永利)c), and Huang Guo-Xiang(黄国翔)a)
a Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China; b Department of Physics, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumchi 830054, China; c Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Abstract This paper proposes a method for calculating the Landau damping of a low-energy collective mode in a harmonically trapped Bose--Einstein condensate. Based on the divergence-free analytical solutions for ground-state wavefunction of the condensate and eigenvalues and eigenfunctions for thermally excited quasiparticles, obtained beyond Thomas--Fermi approximation, this paper calculates the coupling matrix elements describing the interaction between the collective mode and the quasiparticles. With these analytical results this paper evaluates the Landau damping rate of a monopole mode in a spherical trap and discusses its dependence on temperature, particle number and trapping frequency of the system.
Received: 26 February 2006
Revised: 20 March 2006
Accepted manuscript online:
PACS:
03.75.Kk
(Dynamic properties of condensates; collective and hydrodynamic excitations, superfluid flow)
Fund: Project supported by the National Nature
Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos 90403008 and
10434060), and State Key Development Program for Basic Research of
China (Grant No 2005CB724508).
Cite this article:
Ma Xiao-Dong(马晓栋), Zhou Yu(周昱), Ma Yong-Li(马永利), and Huang Guo-Xiang(黄国翔) Landau damping of collective modes in a harmonically trapped Bose--Einstein condensate 2006 Chinese Physics 15 1871
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