Samy Mailoud Sekkouri — Università di Parma #
Mean field transport of ultracold atoms #
We study the evolution of a Bose-Einstein condenstate across engineered potential landscapes. Our approach 
is based on a numerical mean-field description in one, two and three spatial dimensions. We numerically 
prepare initial wave packets as done also in typical experiments with ultracold bosons. These wave packets 
are then traveling across several potential structures, thus realizing an atomic current. We discuss our 
setup and preliminary results on how this new type of atomic transport depends on the mean-field 
nonlinearity.