
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Akhmediev, N. 
A1  - Das, M. P. 
A1  - Vagov, A. V. 
T1  - Bose&#8211;Einstein Condensation of Atoms with Attractive Interaction in a Harmonic Trap
JF  - Australian Journal of Physics
JO  - Aust. J.  Phys.
Y1  - 2000
VL  - 53
IS  - 1
SP  - 157
EP  - 165
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PH99040 
N2  - It is well known that bosonic particles with attractive interaction in a uniform gas do not form a condensate. Here we investigate a dilute Bose gas and study stationary solutions of the Gross&#8211;Pitaevskii equation with attractive interaction. We have also used a higher order stabilising term in the presence of a harmonic confining potential. We show that there are three possible types of stationary solutions corresponding to stable, metastable and unstable phases. These results are discussed in relation to a 7Li condensate. 
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