How to create Alice string (half-quantum vortex) in a vector Bose-Einstein condensate
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We suggest a procedure how to prepare the vortex with N=1/2 winding number -- the counterpart of the Alice string -- in a Bose--Einstein condensate with hyperfine spin F=1. Other possible vortices in Bose-condensates are also discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0003428,
title = {How to create Alice string (half-quantum vortex) in a vector Bose-Einstein condensate},
author = {U. Leonhardt and G. E. Volovik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0003428},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
RevTex file, 3 pages, no figures, extended version submitted to JETP Letters