A Consistent Picture of a Collapsing Bose–Einstein Condensate
A Consistent Picture of a Collapsing Bose–Einstein Condensate
We present a consistent picture of the recent JILA experiments on the collapse of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) [E. A. Donley, et al., Nature 412, 295 (2001)] based on a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation that incorporates the effect of a three-body loss. The questions we address in this paper are: (1) …