Tuesday, May 15, 2012

1205.3067 (Timo Hartmann et al.)

Intensity distribution of non-linear scattering states    [PDF]

Timo Hartmann, Juan-Diego Urbina, Klaus Richter, Peter Schlagheck
We investigate the interplay between coherent effects characteristic of the propagation of linear waves, the non-linear effects due to interactions, and the quantum manifestations of classical chaos due to geometrical confinement, as they arise in the context of the transport of Bose-Einstein condensates. We specifically show that, extending standard methods for non-interacting systems, the body of the statistical distribution of intensities for scattering states solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation is very well described by a local Gaussian ansatz with a position-dependent variance. We propose a semiclassical approach based on interfering classical paths to fix the single parameter describing the universal deviations from a global Gaussian distribution. Being tail effects, rare events like rogue waves characteristic of non-linear field equations do not affect our results.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.3067

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