Special Session 150: 

Ground states of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates and its numerical experiments

Tien-Tsan Shieh
National Taiwan University
Taiwan
Co-Author(s):    I-Liang, Chern
Abstract:
We develop an analytic theory for the ground state patterns and phase diagram of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates in a bounded domain. A complete phase diagram with explicit analytic formulae of Thomas-Fermi solutions on the parameter $q-M$ plane (q: quadratic Zeeman energy, M: total magnetization) for both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems and an entire characterization of ground-state patterns in the semi-classical regime will be present. We will also show our numerical experiments to compare with the theoretical results.