Bogoliubov Excitations of Inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein ...
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List <strong>of</strong> Tables<br />
5.1. Localized <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> quasiparticles in three dimensions . . . 112<br />
6.1. Schematic representation <strong>of</strong> the setting for Bloch oscillations 115<br />
6.2. Sketch <strong>of</strong> the dispersion relation in a lattice . . . . . . . . . 116<br />
6.3. Sketch <strong>of</strong> the intensity <strong>of</strong> two counter-propagating laser beams117<br />
6.4. Typical initial state for Bloch oscillations . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />
6.5. Time evolution <strong>of</strong> stable Bloch oscillations . . . . . . . . . . 123<br />
6.6. Real-space portraits <strong>of</strong> Bloch oscillations for several modulations<br />
g(t) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />
6.7. Key quantities <strong>of</strong> the Bloch oscillation with double Bloch period127<br />
6.8. Contraction <strong>of</strong> the Bloch oscillating wave packet . . . . . . . 128<br />
6.9. Drift and damping <strong>of</strong> the centroid motion . . . . . . . . . . 129<br />
6.10. Growth <strong>of</strong> the most unstable mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133<br />
6.11. Rigid and breathing soliton under harmonic perturbation<br />
g1 sin(F t) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134<br />
6.12. Stability map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135<br />
List <strong>of</strong> Tables<br />
1.1. Typical temperatures and particle densities in BEC experiments 7<br />
6.1. Collective-coordinates parameters for Gaussian and solitonshaped<br />
wave packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126<br />
List <strong>of</strong> Boxes<br />
2.1. Feynman diagrams <strong>of</strong> the condensate function Φ . . . . . . . 27<br />
3.1. Feynman rules: drawing and computing irreducible diagrams 70<br />
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