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arxiv: 1505.05130 · v2 · pith:7Z6VIB6Nnew · submitted 2015-05-19 · ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas · nlin.CD· quant-ph

Dynamical thermalization of Bose-Einstein condensate in Bunimovich stadium

classification ❄️ cond-mat.quant-gas nlin.CDquant-ph
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We study numerically the wavefunction evolution of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a Bunimovich stadium billiard being governed by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We show that for a moderate nonlinearity, above a certain threshold, there is emergence of dynamical thermalization which leads to the Bose-Einstein probability distribution over the linear eigenmodes of the stadium. This distribution is drastically different from the energy equipartition over oscillator degrees of freedom which would lead to the ultra-violet catastrophe. We argue that this interesting phenomenon can be studied in cold atom experiments.

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