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Using a focused laser beam we stir a $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a magnetic trap. We observe that the steady states of the condensate correspond to an elliptic cloud, stationary in the rotating frame. These steady states…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. W. Madison , F. Chevy , V. Bretin , J. Dalibard

We study the energetic and dynamic stability of coreless vortices in nonrotated spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates, trapped with a three-dimensional optical potential and a Ioffe-Pritchard field. The stability of stationary vortex states is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Pietila , M. Mottonen , S. M. M. Virtanen

We report on the existence and stability of multidimensional bound solitonic states in harmonically-trapped scalar Bose-Einstein condensates. Their equilibrium separation, as a measure of the strength of the soliton-soliton or the solitonic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-17 I. Morera , M. Guilleumas , R. Mayol , A. Muñoz Mateo

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is confined in a very tight toroidal/annular trap, in the presence of a potential, which breaks the axial symmetry of the Hamiltonian. We investigate the stationary states of the condensate,…

A hydrodynamic description is used to study the normal modes of a vortex in a zero-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate. In the Thomas-Fermi (TF) limit, the circulating superfluid velocity far from the vortex core provides a small…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Anatoly Svidzinsky , Alexander Fetter

The study of structures involving vortices in one component and bright solitary waves in another has a time-honored history in two-component atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. In the present work, we revisit this topic extending…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-24 J. D'Ambroise , W. Wang , C. Ticknor , R. Carretero-González , P. G. Kevrekidis

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

In this work we study spherical shell dark soliton states in three-dimensional atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Their symmetry is exploited in order to analyze their existence, as well as that of topologically charged variants of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-09 Wenlong Wang , P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis

Vortex states of weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensates confined in three-dimensional rotating harmonic traps are investigated numerically at zero temperature. The ground state in the rotating frame is obtained by propagating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 David L. Feder , Charles W. Clark , Barry I. Schneider

Instabilities of vortex-ring-bright coherent structures in harmonically trapped two-component three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates are studied numerically within the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations and interpreted analytically.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-09 Victor P. Ruban , Wenlong Wang , Christopher Ticknor , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

The three-dimensional study of the ring vortex solitons is conducted for both attractive and repulsive BECs subject to harmonic potential confinement. A family of stationary ring vortex solitons, which is defined by the radial excitation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-06 Li Ji , Deng-Shan Wang , Zhi-Yong Wu , Yan-Mei Yu , Wu-Ming Liu

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

We investigate the stability properties of breather soliton trains in a three-dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate with Feshbach Resonance Management of the scattering length. This is done so as to generate both attractive and repulsive…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Matuszewski , E. Infeld , G. Rowlands , M. Trippenbach

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

We compute the structure of a quantized vortex line in a harmonically trapped dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensate using the Popov version of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mean-field theory. The vortex is shown to be (meta)stable in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. M. M. Virtanen , T. P. Simula , M. M. Salomaa

We use the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study the motion of a vortex ring produced by phase imprinting on an elongated cloud of cold atoms. Our approach models the experiments of Yefsah et. al. [Nature \textbf{499}, 426] on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-17 Matthew D. Reichl , Erich J. Mueller

We investigate the stability of vortices in two-dimensional Bose--Einstein condensates. In analogy with rotating spacetimes and with a careful account of boundary conditions, we show that the dynamical instability of multiply quantized…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-30 Luca Giacomelli , Iacopo Carusotto

We investigate the stability of vortices in two-dimensional Bose--Einstein condensates. In analogy with rotating spacetimes and with a careful account of boundary conditions, we show that the dynamical instability of multiply quantized…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-29 Luca Giacomelli , Iacopo Carusotto

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

The form and stability of quantum vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive atomic interactions is elucidated. They appear as ring bright solitons, and are a generalization of the Townes soliton to nonzero winding number $m$. An…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-05 L. D. Carr , Charles W. Clark