title: Excitations and dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates: A many-body approach
creator: Beinke, Raphael
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
description: This thesis explores the dynamics and especially the low-energy spectra of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in one- and two-dimensional potential traps. Of particular interest are many-body effects. To obtain numerically exact results for the dynamics, the well-established multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree for bosons (MCTDHB) method is applied. Excited states are calculated utilizing the recently introduced linear-response theory atop it (LR-  MCTDHB). The core of the latter theory is an in general non-hermitian eigenvalue problem. The newly developed implementation of this theory is described in detail and benchmarked towards the exactly-solvable harmonic-interaction model. Several applications are discussed.  With respect to dynamics, it is shown that both the out-of-equilibrium tunneling dynamics and the dynamics of trapped vortices are of many-body nature. Furthermore, many-body  effects in the excitation spectra are presented for BECs in different trap geometries. It is demonstrated that even for essentially-condensed systems, the spectrum of the lowest-in-energy excitations computed at the many-body level differs substantially from a standard mean-field description. In general, it is shown that bosons carrying angular momentum are more sensitive to many-body effects, both in the dynamics and the excitation spectrum.
date: 2018
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/25592/1/Diss_RB.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00025592
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-255921
identifier:   Beinke, Raphael  (2018) Excitations and dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates: A many-body approach.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/25592/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng