Many-body properties of Bose-Einstein condensates from multi configurational time-dependent Hartree method

• Grant number: 18/02737-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): May 01, 2018
• Effective date (End): February 28, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Atomic and Molecular Physics
• Principal Investigator: Arnaldo Gammal
• Grantee: Alex Valerio Andriati
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 16/17612-7 - Dynamics of many-body systems IV, AP.TEM

Abstract

We are going to study Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) beyond Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) mean-field approach, pursuing novel methods that take in account the depletion of atoms from the same quantum state, absent in GP mean-field. These new methods are already being studied in what is called Multi Configurational Time-Dependent Hartree (MCTDH) whose can be used in the limit of stronger interactions either between the atoms or within a external potential than those where GP equations are capable to describe. In developing this new approach, it is possible to search regimes where there is disagreement with GP equations, furthermore, opening a way to measure the condensate fraction and correlation functions. We are going to develop codes to solve equations in this MCTDH method, firstly for one dimensional periodic systems, studying some current themes as persistent currents in a ring and Spin-Orbit Coupling (SOC) between pseudo-spin-1/2 either with only Rashba term or balanced with Dresselhaus. In those proposed systems, it will be done calculations sweeping a wide set of values to the interaction strength and exploiting the action of a time dependent external potential, also looking for the ground and excited states, condensate fraction, correlation functions for density, deviation from the GP prescription and phase diagrams. (AU)

Scientific publications

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ANDRIATI, ALEX; BRITO, LEONARDO; TOMIO, LAURO; GAMMAL, ARNALDO. Stability of a Bose-condensed mixture on a bubble trap. Physical Review A, v. 104, n. 3, SEP 23 2021. (16/17612-7, 18/02737-4, 17/05660-0)

BRITO, LEONARDO; ANDRIATI, ALEX; TOMIO, LAURO; GAMMAL, ARNALDO. Breakup of rotating asymmetric quartic-quadratic trapped condensates. Physical Review A, v. 102, n. 6, DEC 29 2020. (18/02737-4, 16/17612-7, 17/05660-0)

Academic Publications

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ANDRIATI, Alex Valerio. Multiconfigurational Hartree method for many-particle systems. 2022. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) São Paulo.