Rotha P Yu | PubMed Health

PubMed2005

Inferring the time-dependent complex Ginzburg-Landau equation from modulus data.

We present a formalism for inferring the equation of evolution of a complex wave field that is known to obey an otherwise unspecified -dimensional time-dependent complex Ginzburg-Landau equation, given field moduli over various closely spaced planes. The phase of the complex wave field is retrieved via a noninterferometric method, and all terms in the equation of evolution are determined using only the magnitude of the complex wave field. The formalism is tested using simulated data for a generalized nonlinear system with a single-component complex wave field. The method can be generalized to multicomponent complex fields.

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PubMed2003

Wave-function reconstruction of complex fields obeying nonlinear parabolic equations.

We present a generalized Gerchberg-Saxton (GS) algorithm for reconstructing a (2+1)-dimensional complex scalar wave field which obeys a known nonlinear nondissipative parabolic differential equation, given knowledge of the wave-field modulus at three or more values of an evolution parameter such as time. This algorithm is used to recover the complex wave function of a (2+1)-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) from simulated modulus data. The Gross-Pitaveskii equation is used to model the dynamics of the BEC, with the modulus information being provided by a temporal sequence of simulated absorption images of the condensate. The efficacy of the generalized GS algorithm is examined for a wide range of simulation conditions, including strong nonlinearities, vortex states and Poisson noise. The general form of this algorithm, which allows one to reconstruct a time-dependent wave function, will be useful for studying the phase dynamics of topological defects in coherent quantum systems.

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