@article {Michelangeli_2018, title = {Effective non-linear spinor dynamics in a spin-1 Bose{\textendash}Einstein condensate}, journal = {Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical}, volume = {51}, number = {40}, year = {2018}, month = {sep}, pages = {405201}, publisher = {IOP Publishing}, abstract = {
We derive from first principles the experimentally observed effective dynamics of a spinor Bose gas initially prepared as a Bose{\textendash}Einstein condensate and then left free to expand ballistically. In spinor condensates, which represent one of the recent frontiers in the manipulation of ultra-cold atoms, particles interact with a two-body spatial interaction and a spin{\textendash}spin interaction. The effective dynamics is well-known to be governed by a system of coupled semi-linear Schr{\"o}dinger equations: we recover this system, in the sense of marginals in the limit of infinitely many particles, with a mean-field re-scaling of the many-body Hamiltonian. When the resulting control of the dynamical persistence of condensation is quantified with the parameters of modern observations, we obtain a bound that remains quite accurate for the whole typical duration of the experiment.
}, doi = {10.1088/1751-8121/aadbc2}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1088\%2F1751-8121\%2Faadbc2}, author = {Alessandro Michelangeli and Alessandro Olgiati} }