Amplification of Local Instabilities in a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Attractive Interactions

We study the collapse of large homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates due to intrinsic attractive interactions. We observe the amplification of a local instability by seeding a momentum state p and suddenly switching the scattering length negative via a Feshbach resonance. We also observe the appeara...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chin, J. K., Vogels, J. M., Ketterle, Wolfgang
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71731
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9528-3044