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Phys. Rev. A 53, R1950 - R1953 (1996)

Properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an anisotropic harmonic potential
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Mark Edwards *
Department of Physics, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460-8031

R. J. Dodd † and C. W. Clark
Electron and Optical Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899

P. A. Ruprecht and K. Burnett *
Clarendon Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom

Rapid Communication Received 20 November 1995

We present results on the size, density, chemical potential, and lifetime of a Bose-Einstein condensate as a function of the number of condensate atoms for parameters appropriate to the time-averaged orbiting potential trap in which a Bose condensate of 87Rb atoms was recently formed [M. H. Anderson et al., Science 269, 198 (1995)]. These results were obtained by solving the time-independent nonlinear Schrödinger equation with anisotropic harmonic trapping potential. We also find vortex solutions for the trap and the critical rotation frequency required for their formation.


©1996 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v53/pR1950
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.R1950
PACS: 03.75.Fi, 67.90.+z

* Also at Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Gaithersburg, MD 20899.
† Also at Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD 20742.

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