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Vortex Nucleation and Array Formation in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate

Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the dynamics of vortex lattice formation of a rotating trapped Bose-Einstein condensate by numerically solving the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation, and find that the condensate undergoes elliptic deformation, followed by unstable surface-mode excitations before forming a quantized vortex lattice. The dependence of the number of vortices on the rotation frequency is obtained.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0107174,
  title  = {Vortex Nucleation and Array Formation in a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate},
  author = {Makoto Tsubota and Kenichi Kasamatsu and Masahito Ueda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0107174},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Latex, JLTP style, 6 pages, 5 figures, prepared for Proccedings of International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids (QFS 2001)