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Cold matter trapping via slowly rotating helical potential

Atomic Physics 2012-07-17 v9 Quantum Gases Pattern Formation and Solitons Optics

Abstract

We consider the cold bosonic ensemble trapped by a helical interference pattern in the optical \textit{loop} scheme. This rotating helical potential is produced by the two slightly detuned counter propagating Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams with counter directed orbital angular momenta ±\pm \ell\hbar . The detuning δω\delta \omega may occur due to rotational Doppler effect. The superfluid hydrodynamics is analysed for the large number of trapped atoms in Thomas-Fermi approximation. For the highly elongated trap the Gross-Pitaevskii equation is solved in a slowly varying envelope approximation. The speed of axial translation and angular momenta of interacting atomic cloud are evaluated. In the T0T \rightarrow 0 limit the angular momentum of the helical cloud is expected to be zero while toroidal trapping geometry leads to 22\ell \hbar angular momentum per trapped atom.

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@article{arxiv.1005.4213,
  title  = {Cold matter trapping via slowly rotating helical potential},
  author = {A. Yu. Okulov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.4213},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, Physics Letters, A, November (2011), accepted

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