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Appearance of quantized vortices in a superfluid and a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) stems from their nontrivial response to broken time-reversal symmetry (TRS). Here we show that breaking of the TRS by, for example, rotation or an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-30 Natalia Masalaeva , Farokh Mivehvar

We study the dynamics of vortex nucleation and lattice formation in a Bose--Einstein condensate in a rotating square optical lattice by numerical simulations of the Gross--Pitaevskii equation. Different dynamical regimes of vortex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-23 Akira Kato , Yuki Nakano , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Tetsuo Matsui

The generation of isotropic vortex configurations in trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates offers a platform to elucidate quantum turbulence on mesoscopic scales. We demonstrate that a laser-induced obstacle moving in a figure-eight path…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 A. J. Allen , N. G. Parker , N. P. Proukakis , C. F. Barenghi

We present a survey of macroscopic excitations of harmonically confined Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC), described by Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation, in search of routes to develop quantum turbulence. These excitations can all be created by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Zamora-Zamora , O. Adame-Arana , V. Romero-Rochín

Bose mixture quantum droplets display a fascinating stability that relies on quantum fluctuations to prevent collapse driven by mean-field effects. Most droplet research focuses on untrapped or weakly trapped scenarios, where the droplets…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-27 T. A. Yoğurt , U. Tanyeri , A. Keleş , M. Ö. Oktel

We propose a scheme for generation of arbitrary coherent superposition of vortex states in Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) using the orbital angular momentum (OAM) states of light. We devise a scheme to generate coherent superpositions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kishore T. Kapale , Jonathan P. Dowling

We consider vortex dynamics in the context of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) with a rotating trap, with or without anisotropy. Starting with the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) partial differential equation (PDE), we derive a novel reduced system of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-04 Shuangquan Xie , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Theodore Kolokolnikov

We have investigated the formation of vortices by rotating the purely magnetic potential confining a Bose-Einstein condensate. We modified the bias field of an axially symmetric TOP trap to create an elliptical potential that rotates in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Hodby , G. Hechenblaikner , S. A. Hopkins , O. M. Maragò , C. J. Foot

A quantized vortex in the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), which is known to be unstable intrinsically, is demonstrated theoretically to be stabilized by the finite temperature effect. The mean-field calculation of Popov approximation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomoya Isoshima , Kazushige Machida

Quantum vortices in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are topological defects characterized by quantized circulation of particles around them. In experimental studies, vortices are commonly detected by time-of-flight imaging, where…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-10-31 Myeonghyeon Kim , Junhwan Kwon , Tenzin Rabga , Yong-il Shin

Realistic methods to create vortices in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates are discussed. It is shown that, contrary to common intuition, rotation of the trap containing a spin-orbit condensate does not lead to an equilibrium…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 Juraj Radic , Tigran Sedrakyan , Ian Spielman , Victor Galitski

I review the basic physics of ultracold dilute trapped atomic gases, with emphasis on Bose-Einstein condensation and quantized vortices. The hydrodynamic form of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (a nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander L. Fetter

We develop a stochastic Gross-Pitaveskii theory suitable for the study of Bose-Einstein condensation in a {\em rotating} dilute Bose gas. The theory is used to model the dynamical and equilibrium properties of a rapidly rotating Bose gas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-13 A. S. Bradley , C. W. Gardiner , M. J. Davis

Motivated by experiments in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), we compare predictions of a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) for dynamics of one and two individual vortices in the rotating BECs with those of the partial…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-02-07 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky

A vortex molecule is predicted in rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensates whose internal hyperfine states are coupled coherently by an external field. A vortex in one component and that in the other are connected by a domain wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota , Masahito Ueda

The quantized vortex state is investigated in a Bose-Einstein condensate, confined in a multiply connected geometry formed by a Laguerre-Gaussian optical trap. Solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation variationally, we show that the criterium…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Tempere , J. T. Devreese , E. R. I. Abraham

We report observations of vortex formation as a result of merging together multiple $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a confining potential. In this experiment, a trapping potential is partitioned into three sections by a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 David R. Scherer , Chad N. Weiler , Tyler W. Neely , Brian P. Anderson

A trapped Bose--Einstein-condensed mixture of two types of cold atoms with significantly different masses has been simulated numerically within the coupled Gross--Pitaevskii equations. A configuration consisting of a vortex-free core and a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-23 Victor P. Ruban

With use of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (or Gross-Pitaevskii) equation with strong repulsive cubic nonlinearity, dynamics of multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with a harmonic trap in 2 dimensions is investigated beyond the…

The global spin polarization of hadrons in heavy ion collisions has been measured in STAR (the Solenoidal Tracker At Relativistic heavy ion collider) experiments, which opens up a new window in the study of the hottest, least viscous and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-11 Jian Deng , Qun Wang , Hong Zhang