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We investigate analytically the thermodynamical stability of vortices in the ground state of rotating 2-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates confined in asymptotically homogeneous trapping potentials in the Thomas-Fermi regime. Our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-04-18 Tanja Rindler-Daller

Rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates confined in anharmonic traps can exhibit a rich variety of vortex phases, including a vortex lattice, a vortex lattice with a hole, and a giant vortex. Using an augmented Thomas-Fermi variational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 George Kavoulakis , Gordon Baym

We study the existence and stability properties of clusters of alternating charge vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates. It is illustrated that such states emerge from cascades of symmetry-breaking bifurcations that can be analytically…

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,…

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

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 study the equilibrium states of a vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We find that quantum effects can be important and that it is even possible for the vortex to be strongly squeezed, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. -P. Martikainen , H. T. C. Stoof

The properties of vortex states in a Bose-Einstein condensed cloud of atoms are considered at zero temperature. Using both analytical and numerical methods we solve the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the case when a cloud of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Emil Lundh , C. J. Pethick , H. Smith

We examine a rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensate in an anharmonic confinement and find that many properties such as the critical rotating frequency and phase diagram are quite different from those in a harmonic trap. We investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Li-Hua Lu , You-Quan Li

Motivated by recent experiments, we theoretically study a gas of atomic bosons confined in an elliptical harmonic trap; forming a quasi-two-dimensional atomic Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a density-dependent gauge potential which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-18 Matthew Edmonds

The quantized vortex state is investigated in a Bose-Einstein condensate, confined in a multiply connected geometry formed by a Laguerre-Gaussian optical trap. Solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation variationally, we show that the criterium…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Tempere , J. T. Devreese , E. R. I. Abraham

Motivated by recent experimental and theoretical studies of fewparticle vortex clusters in Bose-Einstein condensates, we consider the ordinary differential equations of motion and systematically examine settings for up to N = 6 vortices. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-16 Anna M. Barry , P. G. Kevrekidis

A quantized vortex in the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), which is known to be unstable intrinsically, is demonstrated theoretically to be stabilized by the finite temperature effect. The mean-field calculation of Popov approximation…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomoya Isoshima , Kazushige Machida

In this article, we numerically investigate the vortex nucleation in a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a double-well potential and subjected to a density-dependent gauge potential. A rotating Bose-Einstein condensate, when confined in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-19 Ishfaq Ahmad Bhat , Bishwajyoti Dey

Vortex nucleation in a Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a stirring potential is studied numerically using the zero-temperature, two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation. It is found that this theory is able to describe the creation of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Emil Lundh , J. -P. Martikainen , Kalle-Antti Suominen

We consider non centered vortices and their arrays in a cylindrically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature. We study the kinetic energy and the angular momentum per particle in the Thomas Fermi regime and their dependence on…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Montserrat Guilleumas , Robert Graham

The Bogoliubov theory is extended to a Bose-Einstein condensation with internal degrees of freedom, realized recently in $^{23}$Na gases where several hyperfine states are simultaneously cooled optically. Starting with a Hamiltonian…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Tetsuo Ohmi , Kazushige Machida

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

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 consider the mean-field vortex solutions and their stability within a two-component Bose Einstein condensate in the immiscible limit. A variational approach is employed to study a system consisting of a majority component which contains…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-10-05 R. Doran , A. W. Baggaley , N. G. Parker