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In the present work, motivated by numerous recent experimental developments we revisit the dynamics of a single vortex ring in anisotropic harmonic traps. At the theoretical level, we start from a general Lagrangian dynamically capturing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-03 Christopher Ticknor , Wenlong Wang , P. G. Kevrekidis

We investigate the properties of single vortices and of vortex lattice in a rotating dipolar condensate. We show that vortices in this system possess many novel features induced by the long-range anisotropic dipolar interaction between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Yi , H. Pu

We have investigated the dynamics of vortices in a dilute two dimensional Josephson junction array where a fraction of the superconducting islands is missing. We have used the multiple trapping model to calculate the mobility of vortices…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Md. Ashrafuzzaman , Hans Beck

We examine the motion of rigid, ellipsoidal swimmers subjected to a steady vortex flow in two dimensions. Numerical simulations of swimmers in a spatially periodic array of vortices reveal a range of possible behaviors, including trapping…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-11 S. A. Berman , K. A. Mitchell

We investigate the effects of anisotropy on the stability and dynamics of vortex cluster states which arise in Bose-Einstein condensates. Sufficiently strong anisotropies are shown to stabilize states with arbitrary numbers of vortices that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Stockhofe , S. Middelkamp , P. Schmelcher , P. G. Kevrekidis

We use three-dimensional molecular dynamics simulations of magnetically interacting pancake vortices to study the dynamic phases of vortex lattices in highly anisotropic materials such as BSCCO. Our model treats the magnetic interactions of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 C. J. Olson , N. Gronbech-Jensen

We analyze the vortex dynamics and vortex-vortex interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates confined in toroidal traps. We show that this particular geometry strongly distorts the vortex dynamics. The numerically calculated vortex…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Schulte , L. Santos , A. Sanpera , M. Lewenstein

It is shown that grey soliton dynamics in an one-dimensional trap can be treated as Landau dynamics of a quasi-particle. A soliton of arbitrary amplitude moves in the trapping potential without deformation of its density profile as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vladimir V. Konotop , Lev Pitaevskii

We consider ultracold atoms trapped in a toroidal trap with an azimuthal lattice for utility as a macroscopic simulator of quantum optics phenomena. We examine the dynamics induced by the adiabatic introduction of the lattice that serves to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-03 Caelan Brooks , Allison Brattley , Kunal K. Das

We study the formation of vortices in a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a rotating anisotropic trap. We find that the number of vortices and angular momentum attained by the condensate depends upon the rotation history of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Jackson , C. F. Barenghi

The dynamics of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in rotating traps is investigated. In the Thomas-Fermi limit, equations of motion are derived showing multiple static solutions for a vortex free condensate. Dynamic stability analysis…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 I. Corro , R. G. Scott , A. M. Martin

Dynamics of vortex clusters is essential for understanding diverse superfluid phenomena. In this paper, we examine the dynamics of vortex quadrupoles in a trapped two-dimensional (2D) Bose-Einstein condensate. We find that the movement of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-23 Tao Yang , Zhi-Qiang Hu , Shan Zou , Wu-Ming Liu

We study the motion of a vortex dipole in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined to an anisotropic trap. We focus on a system of ordinary differential equations describing the vortices' motion, which is in turn a reduced model of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-31 Roy H. Goodman , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Ricardo Carretero-Gonzalez

We introduce a new model for a pairwise repulsive interaction potential of vortices in a type-II superconductor, consisting of superimposed six- and 12-fold anisotropies. Using numerical simulations we study how the vortex lattice…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-23 M. W. Olszewski , M. R. Eskildsen , C. Reichhardt , C. J. O. Reichhardt

Theories, simulations and experiments on vortex dynamics in quasi-two-dimensional magnetic materials are reviewed. These materials can be modelled by the classical two-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg model with XY (easy-plane) symmetry.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. G. Mertens , A. R. Bishop

We theoretically examine the rotation of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in an elliptical trap, both in the absence and presence of a quantized vortex. Two methods of introducing the rotating potential are considered - adiabatically…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Corro , N. G. Parker , A. M. Martin

A theory of the macroturbulent instability in the system containing vortices of opposite directions (vortices and antivortices) in hard superconductors is proposed. The origin of the instability is connected with the anisotropy of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 L. M. Fisher , T. H. Johansen , A. L. Rakhmanov , A. A. Levchenko , V. A. Yampol'skii

We consider a cold gas of non-interacting fermions in a two dimensional harmonic trap with two different trapping frequencies $\omega_x \leq \omega_y$, and discuss the effect of rotation on the density profile. Depending on the rotation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Ghazanfari , M. O. Oktel

We theoretically examine the vortex states of a gas of trapped quasi-two-dimensional ultracold bosons subject to a density-dependent gauge potential, realizing an effective nonlinear rotation of the atomic condensate, which we also show is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-28 Matthew Edmonds , Muneto Nitta

Vortex dynamics in inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates are studied numerically in two and three dimensions. We simulate the precession of a single vortex around the center of a trapped condensate, and use the Magnus force to estimate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Jackson , J. F. McCann , C. S. Adams