Bloch Structures in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v2
Abstract
A rotating Bose-Einstein condensate is shown to exhibit a Bloch band structure without the need of periodic potential. Vortices enter the condensate by a mechanism similar to the Bragg reflection, if the frequency of a rotating drive or the strength of interaction is adiabatically changed. A localized state analogous to a gap soliton in a periodic system is predicted near the edge of the Brillouin zone.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0401228,
title = {Bloch Structures in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate},
author = {Hiroki Saito and Masahito Ueda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0401228},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures