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Synthesis of Cyclic Polymers and Characterization of Their Diffusive Motion in the Melt State at the Single Molecule Level
Published on: September 26, 2016
Modeling the transport of interacting matter waves in a disordered system by a nonlinear diffusion equation
E Lucioni1, L Tanzi, C D'Errico
1LENS and Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Universitá di Firenze, and INO-CNR, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy.
Abstract:
We model the expansion of an interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a disordered lattice with a nonlinear diffusion equation normally used for a variety of classical systems. We find approximate solutions of the diffusion equation that well reproduce the experimental observations for both short and asymptotic expansion times. Our study establishes a connection between the peculiar shape of the expanding density profiles and the microscopic nonlinear diffusion coefficients.
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