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Spatially-antisymmetric localization of matter wave in a bichromatic optical lattice

✍ Scribed by Y. Cheng; S.K. Adhikari


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
341 KB
Volume
7
Category
Article
ISSN
1612-2011

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✦ Synopsis


By direct numerical simulation of the timedependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation using the split-step Fourier spectral method we study the double-humped localization of a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one-dimensional bichromatic quasi-periodic optical-lattice potential, as used in a recent experiment on the localization of a BEC [G. Roati et al., Nature 453, 895 (2008)]. Such states are spatially antisymmetric and are excited modes of Anderson localization. Where possible, we have compared the numerical results with a variational analysis. We also demonstrate the stability of the localized double-humped BEC states under small perturbation.