Depletion of Harmonically Confined, Interacting Bose Atoms from the Ground State

Das, Mukunda P; Kim, Sang-Hoon; Gnanapragasam, Gnanasangeetha

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Depletion of Harmonically Confined, Interacting Bose Atoms from the Ground State

Date

2006

Authors

Das, Mukunda P

Kim, Sang-Hoon

Gnanapragasam, Gnanasangeetha

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Company

Abstract

The macroscopic occupation of atoms in the ground state of an interacting Bose gas confined by an external harmonic potential is calculated as a function of the interaction strength. The effect of the inter-atomic interaction to the ground state distribution is discussed.