Session KP01 - Poster Session III.
POSTER session, Tuesday afternoon, March 23
Exhibit Hall, GWCC
We study numerically different aspects of the quantum kinetic time evolution of a model system that consists of an ideal Bose gas in a harmonic trap. The numerical integration of the appropriate quantum Boltzmann equation is accomplished using a trajectory method similar to that employed by Holland et al(M.~Holland, J.~Williams and J.~Cooper, Phys. Rev. A 55), 3670 (1997). One of our interests is to examine the relaxation to the condensate ground state from an initial distribution which contains a thermodynamically unstable macroscopically occupied state. This nonequilibrium situation is relevant to recent experiments at MIT with optically trapped multicomponent condensate systems. Using the same methods, additional insight into the nucleation dynamics of the condensate is gained.