Collective excitations of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates
arXiv:cond-mat/9605170 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.1671
Abstract
We apply linear-response analysis of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to obtain the excitation frequencies of a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a time-averaged orbiting potential trap. Our calculated values are in excellent agreement with those observed in a recent experiment.
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