Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2204–2207 (2001)Explosion of a Collapsing Bose-Einstein CondensateReceived 20 July 2000; published in the issue dated 12 March 2001 We show that elastic collisions between atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interactions can lead to an explosion that ejects a large fraction of the collapsing condensate. We study variationally the dynamics of this explosion and find excellent agreement with recent experiments on magnetically trapped 85Rb. We also determine the energy and angular distribution of the ejected atoms during the collapse. © 2001 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2204
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2204
PACS:
03.75.Fi, 32.80.Pj, 67.40.-w
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