Abstract
Recent experimental demonstrations of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in trapped dilute alkali gases1 provide a strong incentive for developing reliable theoretical models of the phenomenon. In this paper, a numerical model based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE), Eq. (1), is presented that generates self-consistent thermally excited states and allows the process of evaporative cooling to be convincingly simulated.
© 1999 Optical Society of America
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