2024-07-152024-07-152022MIRANDA, Bruno M.; SANTOS, Mateus C. P. dos; CARDOSO, Wesley B. Symmetry breaking in Bose-Einstein condensates confined by a funnel potential. Physics Letters A, Amsterdam, v. 452, e128453, 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2022.128453. Disponível em: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375960122005357. Acesso em: 1 jun.2023.0375-9601e- 1873-2429https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375960122005357In this paper we consider a Bose-Einstein condensate in self-attraction regime, confined transversely by a funnel-like potential and axially by a double-well potential formed by the combination of two inverted Pöschl-Teller potentials. The system is well described by a one-dimensional nonpolynomial Schrödinger equation, for which we analyze the symmetry break of the wave function that describes the particle distribution of the condensate. The symmetry break was observed for several interaction strength values as a function of the minimum potential well. In addition, we analyzed the symmetric and asymmetric solutions using a real-time evolution method, in which it was possible to confirm the stability of the results. Finally, a comparison with the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the full Gross-Pitaevskii equation were performed to check the accuracy of the effective equation used here.engAcesso RestritoBose-Einstein condensatesGross-Pitaevskii equationSpontaneous symmetry breakingNonpolynomial Schrödinger equationArtigo10.1016/j.physleta.2022.128453