Interference of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a hard-wall trap: Formation of vorticity
Statistical Mechanics
2009-10-31 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We theoretically study the coherent expansion of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of a confining impenetrable hard-wall potential. The nonlinear dynamics of the macroscopically coherent matter field results in rich and complex spatio-temporal interference patterns demonstrating the formation of vorticity and solitonlike structures, and the fragmentation of the condensate into coherently coupled pieces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9908095,
title = {Interference of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a hard-wall trap: Formation of vorticity},
author = {J. Ruostekoski and B. Kneer and W. P. Schleich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9908095},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures (2 gif)