Abstract
We investigate a classical phase-space approach of matter-wave propagation based on the truncated Wigner equation (TWE). We show that such a description is suitable for ideal matter waves in quadratic time-dependent confinement as well as for harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates in the Thomas-Fermi regime. In arbitrary interacting regimes, the TWE combined with the moment method yields the low-energy spectrum of a condensate as predicted by independent variational methods. TWE also gives the right breathing-mode frequency for long-ranged interactions decaying as $1/{r}^{2}$ in three dimensions and for a contact potential in two dimensions. Quantum signatures, beyond the TWE, may only be found in the condensate dynamics beyond the regimes of classical phase-space propagation identified here.
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