R Carretero-González et al 2008 Nonlinearity 21 R139 doi:10.1088/0951-7715/21/7/R01
Nonlinear waves in Bose–Einstein condensates: physical relevance and mathematical techniques
REVIEW ARTICLER Carretero-González1, D J Frantzeskakis2 and P G Kevrekidis3
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The aim of this review is to introduce the reader to some of the physical notions and the mathematical methods that are relevant to the study of nonlinear waves in Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs). Upon introducing the general framework, we discuss the prototypical models that are relevant to this setting for different dimensions and different potentials confining the atoms. We analyse some of the model properties and explore their typical wave solutions (plane wave solutions, bright, dark, gap solitons as well as vortices). We then offer a collection of mathematical methods that can be used to understand the existence, stability and dynamics of nonlinear waves in such BECs, either directly or starting from different types of limits (e.g. the linear or the nonlinear limit or the discrete limit of the corresponding equation). Finally, we consider some special topics involving more recent developments, and experimental setups in which there is still considerable need for developing mathematical as well as computational tools.
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82C10 Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general)
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Issue 7 (July 2008)
Received 20 October 2006, in final form 12 March 2008
Published 10 June 2008
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Nonlinear waves in Bose–Einstein condensates: physical relevance and mathematical techniques
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