Condensate Wave Function of Neutral Bose Atoms in Power-Law Traps
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The macroscopic quantum states of a condensed neutral Bose gas in one-dimensional power-law traps are obtained by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation numerically. A suitable candidate for a trial wave function for the variational calculation of the ground-state energy is suggested. It is shown that the suggested function exp(−r), where k is the power of the trap, produces a lower ground-state energy than the conventional Gaussian trial wave function.
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