Modulational instability of two colliding Bose-Einstein condensates

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作者
Shukla, PK [1 ]
Stenflo, L
Fedele, R
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[1] Umea Univ, Dept Plasma Phys, SE-90187 Umea, Sweden
[2] Ruhr Univ Bochum, Fak Phys & Astron, Inst Theoret Phys 4, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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10.1238/Physica.Regular.064a00553
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
It is found that two colliding Bose-Einstein condensate wave packets are modulationally unstable. An explicit expression for the growth rate of a purely growing modulational instability is presented.
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