Arrival times of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20281v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:23:40 GMT
• Title: Arrival times of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate
• Abstract summary: Time of flight of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate is theoretically investigated.<n>For non-interacting particles, distinct theoretical predictions have been made in the past.<n>This work analyses how these predictions are modified for an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate.
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• Abstract: The times of flight of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate are theoretically investigated in the experimentally unexplored regime corresponding to detection close to the trap of the condensate. In this regime, there is no consensus on how to calculate the distribution of times of arrival onto the detector. For non-interacting particles, distinct theoretical predictions have been made in the past. This work analyses how these predictions are modified for an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. For this purpose, a time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation is solved analytically and numerically.

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