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The dynamics of a ring of vortices in two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (with and without an additional vortex at the center) is studied for (1) a uniform condensate in a rigid cylinder and (2) a nonuniform trapped condensate in the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Jong-kwan Kim , Alexander L. Fetter

We observe multi-step condensation of sodium atoms with spin $F=1$, where the different Zeeman components $m_F=0,\pm 1$ condense sequentially as the temperature decreases. The precise sequence changes drastically depending on the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-09 C. Frapolli , T. Zibold , A. Invernizzi , K. Jiménez-García , J. Dalibard , F. Gerbier

While a spin-orbit-coupled spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate has been experimentally observed, its elementary excitations remain unclear in the stripe phase. Here, we systematically study the elementary excitations in three distinct phases of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-24 Yuanyuan Chen , Hao Lyu , Yong Xu , Yongping Zhang

We investigate the vortex lattices of harmonically confined quasi-two-dimensional tilted rotational dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. By employing an extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a rotating condensate, we reveal the structural…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-12 Mamta Ale , Harsimranjit Kaur , Kuldeep Suthar

Lord Kelvin proposed that atoms form hydrodynamic vortex knots. However, they typically untie through reconnections, i. e., local cut-and-slice events, unlike stable vortex unknots such as smoke rings. The same holds in superfluids--quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-17 Michikazu Kobayashi , Yuta Nozaki , Yuya Koda , Muneto Nitta

I use a time-dependent Lagrangian formalism and a variational trial function to study the dynamics of a two-component vortex in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). For a single-component BEC, various experiments have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-25 Alexander L. Fetter

In this thesis, we perform investigations into the behaviour of finite-temperature degenerate Bose gases using a classical-field formalism, focussing in particular on the dynamics of quantum vortices in these systems. We demonstrate that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-11-29 Tod M. Wright

We numerically simulate vortex nucleation in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) subject to an effective magnetic field. The effective magnetic field is generated from the interplay between light with a non-trivial phase structure and the BEC,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-07 D. R. Murray , P Öhberg , Damiá Gomila , Stephen M. Barnett

We present a self-consistent study of coherently coupled two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. Finite spin-flipping coupling changes the first order demixing phase transition for Bose-Bose mixtures to a second order phase transition…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-29 M. Abad , A. Recati

The spinor condensate with spin states degenerated in the ground spin-space provides a unique platform for investigating the edge of quantum mechanics and statistical physics. We study the evolution of the condensate under the scattering of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-15 Yixin Xu , Zhongda Zeng , Zbignew Domanski , Zhibing Li

In this paper, a quantum Stern-Gerlach thought experiment is introduced where, in addition to the intrinsic angular momentum of an atom, the magnetic field is also treated quantum mechanically. A freely falling spin polarised Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-20 Mandip Singh

Spontaneous spin vortex formation in the magnetic phase transition of a trapped spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate is investigated using mean-field theory. In a harmonic trapping potential, an inhomogeneous atomic density leads to spatial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-12 Hiroki Saito , Yuki Kawaguchi , Masahito Ueda

We classify vortex-core structures according to the topology of the order parameter space. By developing a method to characterize how the order parameter changes inside the vortex core. We apply this method to the spin-1 Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-25 Shingo Kobayashi , Yuki Kawaguchi , Muneto Nitta , Masahito Ueda

We study the formation and stability of a single vortex state in a weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate that is confined in a rotating harmonic potential. Our results are consistent with the fact that any single off-center vortex is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. M. Kavoulakis

We predict the formation of giant vortices in quasi-two-dimensional quantum dots at high magnetic fields, i.e., in rapidly rotating electron droplets. Our numerical results of quantum dots confined by a flat, anharmonic potential show…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Rasanen , H. Saarikoski , Y. Yu , A. Harju , M. J. Puska , S. M. Reimann

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…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Makoto Tsubota , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Masahito Ueda

We investigate the vortex-lattice structure for single- and two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of an optical lattice, which acts as a pinning potential for the vortices. The problem is considered in the mean-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. P. Mink , C. Morais Smith , R. A. Duine

We observe that a density-depleted vortex core evolves into concentric density ripples in a freely expanding quasi-two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate. The atomic density of the expanding condensate rapidly reduces due to the fast…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-10 Sang Won Seo , Jae-yoon Choi , Yong-il Shin

The single vortex problem in a strongly correlated bosonic system is investigated self-consistently within the mean-field theory of the Bose-Hubbard model. Near the superfluid-Mott transition, the vortex core has a tendency toward the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Congjun Wu , Han-dong Chen , Jiang-ping Hu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

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