A spectral collocation method for a rotating Bose-Einstein condensation in optical lattices

We extend the study of spectral collocation methods (SCM) in Li et al. (2009) [1] for semilinear elliptic eigenvalue problems to that for a rotating Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) and a rotating BEC in optical lattices. We apply the Lagrange interpolants using the Legendre-Gauss-Lobatto points to derive error bounds for the SCM. The optimal error bounds are derived for both H-1-norm and L-2-norm. Extensive numerical experiments on a rotating Bose-Einstein condensation and a rotating BEC in optical lattices are reported. Our numerical results show that the convergence rate of the SCM is exponential, and is independent of the collocation points we choose. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.