Effect of atomic transfer on the decay of a Bose-Einstein condensate

Pawel Zin, Andrzej Dragan, Szymon Charzynski, Norbert Herschbach, Paul Tol, Wim Hogervorst, Wim Vassen

Published 2003-03-21Version 1

We present a model describing the decay of a Bose-Einstein condensate, which assumes the system to remain in thermal equilibrium during the decay. We show that under this assumption transfer of atoms occurs from the condensate to the thermal cloud enhancing the condensate decay rate.