A Mass and Magnetization Conservative and Energy-Diminishing Numerical Method for Computing Ground State of Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates

  • Authors:

  • Weizhu Bao;Hanquan Wang

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, a mass (or normalization) and magnetization conservative and energy-diminishing numerical method is presented for computing the ground state of spin-1 (or $F=1$ spinor) Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We begin with the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations, and the ground state is defined as the minimizer of the energy functional under two constraints on the mass and magnetization. By constructing a continuous normalized gradient flow (CNGF) which is mass and magnetization conservative and energy-diminishing, the ground state can be computed as the steady state solution of the CNGF. The CNGF is then discretized by the Crank-Nicolson finite difference method with a proper way to deal with the nonlinear terms, and we prove that the discretization is mass and magnetization conservative and energy-diminishing in the discretized level. Numerical results of the ground state and their energy of spin-1 BECs are reported to demonstrate the efficiency of the numerical method.