Time-dependent condensation of bosonic dysprosium

We investigate thermalization and time-dependent Bose-Einstein condensate formation in ultracold 164Dy using a nonlinear boson diffusion equation. As compared to alkali atoms such as 39K or 87Rb, the strong magnetic dipole interaction modifies the scattering-length dependence of the transport coefficients that govern thermalization and condensate formation. A prediction for the time-dependent condensate fraction in 164Dy is made.