Weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates under rotation: mean-field versus exact solutions.
We consider a weakly interacting, harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensed gas under rotation and investigate the connection between the energies obtained from mean-field calculations and from exact diagonalizations in a subspace of degenerate states. From the latter we derive an approximation scheme valid in the thermodynamic limit of many particles. Mean-field results are shown to emerge as the correct leading-order approximation to exact calculations in the same subspace.
Jackson
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Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Kavoulakis
G M
GM
Mottelson
B
B
Reimann
S M
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