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A simple method to create a vortex in Bose-Einstein condensate of alkali atoms

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Bose-Einstein condensation in alkali atoms has materialized quite an interesting system, namely a condensate with a spin degree of freedom. In analogy with the A-phase of the superfluid 3^3He, numerous textures with nonvanishing vorticity have been proposed. In the present paper, interesting properties of such spin textures are analyzed. We propose a remarkably simple method to create a vortex state of a BEC in alkali atoms.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9905374,
  title  = {A simple method to create a vortex in Bose-Einstein condensate of alkali atoms},
  author = {Mikio Nakahara and Tomoya Isoshima and Kazushige Machida and Shin-ichiro Ogawa and Tetsuo Ohmi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9905374},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

2 pages, 1 eps figure. Proceedings of LT22. The title is changed from the submitted version: Vortices in Bose-Einstein condensate with spin degree of freedom