%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical %D 2018 %T Effective non-linear spinor dynamics in a spin-1 Bose–Einstein condensate %A Alessandro Michelangeli %A Alessandro Olgiati %X

We derive from first principles the experimentally observed effective dynamics of a spinor Bose gas initially prepared as a Bose–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–spin interaction. The effective dynamics is well-known to be governed by a system of coupled semi-linear Schrödinger 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.

%B Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical %I IOP Publishing %V 51 %P 405201 %8 sep %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1751-8121%2Faadbc2 %R 10.1088/1751-8121/aadbc2