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We briefly discuss energy, normal modes and dynamics of a vortex in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. Theoretical results are compared with current experiments.

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We have observed and characterized the dynamics of singly quantized vortices in dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates. Our condensates are produced in a superposition of two internal states of 87Rb, with one state supporting a vortex and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 B. P. Anderson , P. C. Haljan , C. E. Wieman , E. A. Cornell

Vortex configurations in rotating Bose-Einstein condensed gases trapped in power-law and anharmonic potentials are studied. When the confining potential is steeper than harmonic in the plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation, vortices…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Emil Lundh

We study the dynamics of a straight vortex line in a partially Bose-Einstein condensed atomic gas. Using a variational approach to the stochastic field equation that describes the dynamics of the condensate at nonzero temperature, we derive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-13 R. A. Duine , B. W. A. Leurs , H. T. C. Stoof

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 study the real-time dynamics of vortex lines in a large elongated Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of sodium atoms using a stroboscopic technique. Vortices are spontaneously produced via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism in a quench across the…

We study the quadrupole oscillation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in an axisymmetric magnetic trap, after it has been stirred by an auxiliary laser beam. The stirring may lead to the nucleation of one or more…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-02-12 F. Chevy , K. Madison , J. Dalibard

Boundaries strongly affect the behavior of quantized vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates, a phenomenon particularly evident in elongated cigar-shaped traps where vortices tend to orient along a short direction to minimize energy.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-03 R. N. Bisset , S. Serafini , E. Iseni , M. Barbiero , T. Bienaimé , G. Lamporesi , G. Ferrari , F. Dalfovo

We calculate the angular momentum and energy of a vortex dipole in a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. Fully analytic expressions are obtained. We apply the results to understand a novel phenomenon in the MIT group experiment, an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Qi Zhou , Hui Zhai

We investigate energetic stability of vortices near the surface of a Bose-Einstein condensate. From an energy functional of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate, written in terms of variables local to the surface, and a suitable trial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Al Khawaja

Vortices were imprinted in a Bose-Einstein condensate using topological phases. Sodium condensates held in a Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap were transformed from a non-rotating state to one with quantized circulation by adiabatically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. E. Leanhardt , A. Görlitz , A. P. Chikkatur , D. Kielpinski , Y. Shin , D. E. Pritchard , W. Ketterle

Numerical simulations of vortex motion in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate were performed by solving the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the presence of a simple phenomenological model of interaction between the condensate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-24 Eniko J. M. Madarassy

We have created vortices in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. The vortex state was created through a coherent process involving the spatial and temporal control of interconversion between the two components. Using an interference…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Matthews , B. P. Anderson , P. C. Haljan , D. S. Hall , C. E. Wieman , E. A. Cornell

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

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

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

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 predict solitary vortices in quasi-planar condensates of dipolar atoms, polarized parallel to the confinement direction, with the effective sign of the dipole-dipole interaction inverted by means of a rapidly rotating field. Energy…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Tikhonenkov , B. A. Malomed , A. Vardi

We study Bose-Einstein condensate of atomic Boson gases trapped in a composite potential of a harmonic potential and an optical lattice potential. We found a series of collective excitations that induces localized vortex oscillations with a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Tomoya Isoshima

We study the dynamics of small vortex clusters with few (2--4) co-rotating vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates by means of experiments, numerical computations, and theoretical analysis. All of these approaches corroborate the…