TY  - JOUR
A1  - Balaž, Antun
A1  - Vidanovic, Ivana
A1  - Bogojević, Aleksandar
A1  - Pelster, Axel
T1  - Ultra-fast converging path-integral approach for rotating ideal Bose-Einstein condensates
N2  - A recently developed efficient recursive approach for analytically calculating the short-time evolution of the one-particle propagator to extremely high orders is applied here for numerically studying the thermodynamical and dynamical properties of a rotating ideal Bose gas of Rb-87 atoms in an anharmonic trap. At first, the one-particle energy spectrum of the system is obtained by diagonalizing the discretized short-time propagator. Using this, many-boson properties such as the condensation temperature, the ground-state occupancy, density profiles, and time-of-flight absorption pictures are calculated for varying rotation frequencies. The obtained results improve previous semiclassical calculations, in particular for smaller particle numbers. Furthermore, we find that typical time scales for a free expansion are increased by an order of magnitude for the delicate regime of both critical and overcritical rotation.
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03759601
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2010.01.034
SN  - 0375-9601
ER  -