Exploring ground states and excited states of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates by continuation methods

Journal Article · Sun Mar 20 04:00:00 EDT 2011 · Journal of Computational Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2010.11.048· OSTI ID:21499780

Chen, Jen-Hao ^[1]; Chern, I-Liang ^[2]

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1. Department of Applied Mathematics, National Hsinchu University of Education, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan (China)
2. Department of Mathematics and Taida Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan (China)

A pseudo-arclength continuation method (PACM) is employed to compute the ground state and excited state solutions of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). The BEC is governed by the time-independent coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations (GPE) under the conservations of the mass and magnetization. The coupling constants that characterize the spin-independent and spin-exchange interactions are chosen as the continuation parameters. The continuation curve starts from a ground state or an excited state with very small coupling parameters. The proposed numerical schemes allow us to investigate the effect of the coupling constants and study the bifurcation diagrams of the time-independent coupled GPE. Numerical results on the wave functions and their corresponding energies of spin-1 BEC with repulsive/attractive and ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic interactions are presented. Furthermore, we reveal that the component separation and population transfer between the different hyperfine states can only occur in excited states due to the spin-exchange interactions.

• OSTI ID: 21499780
• Journal Information: Journal of Computational Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Computational Physics Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 230; ISSN JCTPAH; ISSN 0021-9991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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COUPLING CONSTANTS
ENERGY LEVELS
EQUATIONS
EXCITED STATES
FERROMAGNETISM
FUNCTIONS
GROUND STATES
MAGNETISM
MAGNETIZATION
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MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS
SPIN EXCHANGE
WAVE FUNCTIONS