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We theoretically investigate a Bose-Einstein condensate confined by a rotating harmonic trap whose rotation axis is not aligned with any of its principal axes. The principal axes of the Thomas-Fermi density profiles of the resulting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-01 Srivatsa B. Prasad , Brendan C. Mulkerin , Andrew M. Martin

We review the theory of vortices in trapped dilute Bose-Einstein condensates and compare theoretical predictions with existing experiments. Mean-field theory based on the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation describes the main features…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alexander Fetter , Anatoly Svidzinsky

We study the stability of vortices in a binary system of Bose-Einstein condensates, with their wave functions modeled by a set of coupled, time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equations. Beginning with an effective two-dimensional system, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-13 Ajay Srinivasan , Aaron Wirthwein , Stephan Haas

We study theoretically Bose-Einstein condensates with polarized dipolar interactions in anisotropic traps. We map the parameter space by varying the trap frequencies and dipolar interaction strengths and find an irregular-shaped region of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-28 A. D. Martin , P. B. Blakie

Based on an analytic solution of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the large-condensate (Thomas-Fermi) limit we determine the structure of a stationary vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate in a nonaxisymmetric rotating trap. The condensate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky , Alexander L. Fetter

We investigate the effect of the anisotropy of a harmonic trap on the behaviour of a fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensate. This is done in the framework of the 2D Gross-Pitaevskii equation and requires a symplectic reduction of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-01 Amandine Aftalion , Xavier Blanc , Nicolas Lerner

A vortex in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate can experience at least two types of instabilities. (1). Macroscopic hydrodynamic motion of the vortex core relative to the center of mass of the condensate requires some process to dissipate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander L. Fetter

We investigate vortex excitations in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of complex $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potentials. These complex potentials are used to describe a balanced gain and loss of particles and allow for an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 Lukas Schwarz , Holger Cartarius , Ziad H. Musslimani , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

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

We perform accurate investigation of stability of localized vortices in an effectively two-dimensional ("pancake-shaped") trapped BEC with negative scattering length. The analysis combines computation of the stability eigenvalues and direct…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Dumitru Mihalache , Dumitru Mazilu , Boris A. Malomed , Falk Lederer

We study the vortex lattices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a rotating anisotropic harmonic trap. We first investigate the single particle wavefunctions obtained by the exact solution of the problem and give simple expressions for these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. O. Oktel

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

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

In this review, we give an overview of the experimental and theoretical advances in the physics of quantized vortices in dilute atomic-gas Bose--Einstein condensates in a trapping potential, especially focusing on experimental research…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-10 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota

Multiquantum vortices in dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensates confined in long cigar-shaped traps are known to be both energetically and dynamically unstable. They tend to split into single-quantum vortices even in the ultralow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. A. M. Huhtamäki , M. Möttönen , S. M. M. Virtanen

In this brief review we summarize a number of recent developments in the study of vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates, a topic of considerable theoretical and experimental interest in the past few years. We examine the generation of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis , I. G. Kevrekidis

A trapped Bose-Einstein condensate, being strongly perturbed, exhibits several spatial structures. First, there appear quantum vortices. Increasing the amount of the injected energy leads to the formation of vortex tangles representing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-04 V. I. Yukalov , A. N. Novikov , V. S. Bagnato

The dynamical instabilities and ensuing dynamics of singly- and doubly-quantized vortex states of Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interactions are investigated using full 3D numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Hiroki Saito , Masahito Ueda

We study the three-dimensional ground state vortex lattice structures of purely dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). By using the mean-field model we obtain a stability diagram for the vortex states in purely dipolar BECs as a function…

We consider a large condensate in a rotating anisotropic harmonic trap. Using the method of matched asymptotic expansions, we derive the velocity of an element of vortex line as a function of the local gradient of the trap potential, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Anatoly Svidzinsky , Alexander Fetter