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Dynamics of Coupled Topological – Collective Modes of a Bose-Einstein Condensate Aranya B. Bhattacherj ee Department of Physics, Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College (University of Delhi, South Campus), Dhaula Kuan, New Delhi- 110021 India, Email: abhattac@bol.net.in Abstract: We develop the theory of the resonant formation of coupled topological- collective coherent modes in the presence of a quantized trap and classical external field. The coupling between the topological and the collective modes can be linear as well as non-linear depending upon the tuning of the external extremely low frequency electromagnetic field. This tuning depends on the trap frequency and the energy level separation between the ground and the first excited topological coherent mode modified by the two body atomic collisions. Introduction One of the most fascinating predictions of quantum statistical mechanics is that of a phase transition in an ideal gas of identical bosons when the thermal de Broglie wavelength exceeds the mean spacing between particles. Under such conditions, bosons are stimulated by the presence of other bosons in the lowest energy state to occupy that state as well, resulting in a macroscopic occupation of a single quantum state. This transition is termed Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) and the condensate that forms constitutes a macroscopic quantum-mechanical obj ect. In the mean field regime, the Bose system is adequately described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The stationary solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation are called coherent modes. Thus BEC of trapped atoms can be understood as the condensation to the ground coher