Effective Semiclassical Evolution of Bose Einstein Condensates

Abstract

In this work we analyze the effective evolution of a one dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) within a semiclassical description of quantum systems based on expectation values of quantum dispersions and physical observables, known as momentous quantum mechanics. We show that the most prominent features and physical parameters of the system can be determined from the dynamics of the corresponding semiclassical system, consisting of an extended phase space including original classical observables and quantum dispersions, and we also show that particle trajectories for expectation values of observables are a particular characteristic in this framework. We also demonstrate that interactions with several potentials can be implemented in an intuitive way.

Keywords

• effective quantum mechanics
• bose-einstein condensate
• semiclassical evolution