Numerical solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation for small samples of trapped neutral atoms
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 51 (2), 1382-1386
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.51.1382
Abstract
We present a numerical technique to solve the time-independent nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an external potential. We apply it to the case of a dilute Bose-condensed assembly of trapped neutral atoms where the potential varies on the same scale as the condensate. This situation should soon be accessible to experimental observation.Keywords
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