Dynamical instability of a two component Bose-Einstein Condensate in an optical lattice
Author
Taşgın, M. Emre
Öktel, M. Özgür
Date
2006Source Title
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Print ISSN
1742-6588
Publisher
IOP
Volume
36
Pages
200 - 204
Language
English
Type
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Abstract
We investigate the dynamical instability for a two component Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) in an optical lattice. We assume that the two components are in sinusoidal potentials with the same period but different phases. We find a swallow-tail type instability near the band edge, however an extra tail is formed due to the inter-component interaction. Depending on the phase difference of the potentials, the instability region may expand or shrink with increasing inter-component interaction.