Output from Bose condensates in tunnel arrays: the role of mean-field interactions and of transverse confinement

Citation
Ml. Chiofalo et Mp. Tosi, Output from Bose condensates in tunnel arrays: the role of mean-field interactions and of transverse confinement, PHYS LETT A, 268(4-6), 2000, pp. 406-412
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICS LETTERS A
ISSN journal
03759601 → ACNP
Volume
268
Issue
4-6
Year of publication
2000
Pages
406 - 412
Database
ISI
SICI code
0375-9601(20000417)268:4-6<406:OFBCIT>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
We present numerical studies of atomic transport in 3D and 1D models for 3 mode-locked, pulsed atom laser as realized by Anderson and Kasevich [Scienc e 281 (1998) 1686] using an elongated Bose condensate of Rb-87 atoms poured into 3 vertical optical lattice. From our 3D results we ascertain in a qua ntitative manner the role of mean-field interactions in determining the sha pe and the size of the pulses in the case of Gaussian transverse confinemen t. By comparison with 1D simulations we single out a best-performing 1D red uction of the mean-field interactions, which yields quantitatively useful p redictions for all main features of the matter output. (C) 2000 Elsevier Sc ience B.V. All rights reserved.