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Optical visibility and core structure of vortex filaments in a bosonic superfluid

Quantum Gases 2019-01-29 v2

Abstract

We use optical images of a superfluid consisting of a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium atoms to investigate the structure of quantized three-dimensional vortex filaments. We find that the measured optical contrast and the width of the vortex core quantitatively agree with the predictions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.

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@article{arxiv.1804.03017,
  title  = {Optical visibility and core structure of vortex filaments in a bosonic superfluid},
  author = {Franco Dalfovo and Russell N. Bisset and Carmelo Mordini and Giacomo Lamporesi and Gabriele Ferrari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03017},
  year   = {2019}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures