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We study electronic structures of two-dimensional quantum dots in strong magnetic fields using mean-field density-functional theory and exact diagonalization. Our numerically accurate mean-field solutions show a reconstruction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 H. Saarikoski , A. Harju , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen

We consider a "symmetric" quantum droplet in two spatial dimensions, which rotates in a harmonic potential, focusing mostly on the limit of "rapid" rotation. We examine this problem using a purely numerical approach, as well as a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-10 S. Nikolaou , G. M. Kavoulakis , M. Ogren

Quantized vortices stunningly illustrate the coherent nature of a superfluid Bose condensate of alkali atoms. Introducing an optical lattice depletes this coherence. Consequently, novel vortex physics may emerge in an experiment on a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-24 Daniel S. Goldbaum , Erich J. Mueller

Motivated by a recent demonstration of cyclic addition of quantized vorticity into a Bose-Einstein condensate, the vortex pump, we study dynamical instabilities and core sizes of giant vortices. The core size is found to increase roughly as…

We investigate the rotational properties of quantum droplets, which form in a mixture of two Bose-Einstein condensates, in the presence of an anharmonic trapping potential. We identify various phases as the atom number and the angular…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-30 S. Nikolaou , G. M. Kavoulakis , M. Ogren

A fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a quadratic-plus-quartic potential is found to dynamically generate a "giant vortex" that absorbs all phase singularities into a central low density hole, thereby sustaining a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-05 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota , Masahito Ueda

A two-dimensional rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensate in a harmonic plus quartic trap is expected to have unusual vortex states that do not occur in a pure harmonic trap. At a critical rotation speed $\Omega_h$, a central hole appears…

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

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

Using the relativistic complex scalar field model with a repulsive self-interaction, we discuss the ground state structure of charged pion condensation under the coexistence of parallel rotation and magnetic field. Our previous study found…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-08 Tao Guo , Yanmei Xiao

The existence of quantized vortices is a key feature of Bose-Einstein condensates. In equilibrium condensates only quantum vortices of unit topological charge are stable, due to the dynamical instabilities of multiply charged defects,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-19 Samuel N. Alperin , Natalia G. Berloff

We consider a two-dimensional self-bound quantum droplet, which consists of a mixture of two Bose-Einstein condensates. We start with the ground state, and then turn to the rotational response of this system, in the presence of an external…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-26 P. Examilioti , G. M. Kavoulakis

The correlations in the ground state of interacting electrons in a two-dimensional quantum dot in a high magnetic field are known to undergo a qualitative change from liquid-like to crystal-like as the total angular momentum becomes large.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Gun Sang Jeon , Chia-Chen Chang , Jainendra K. Jain

Recently, it was shown that giant vortices with arbitrarily large quantum numbers can possibly be created in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates by cyclically pumping vorticity into the condensate. However, multiply quantized vortices are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-11-09 Pekko Kuopanportti , Mikko Möttönen

Here we report a study of vortex states in a thin superconducting film with a magnetic dot grown upon it by means of a method based on London-Maxwell equations. Vortices with single quantum flux ($\Phi_0 = h c / 2 e$), giant vortices…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Serkan Erdin

We study electronic structures of quasi-two-dimensional finite electron systems in high magnetic fields. The solutions in the fractional quantum Hall regime are interpreted as quantum liquids of electrons and off-electron vortices. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henri Saarikoski , Ari Harju

In this paper we show that the vortex states can be created not only in magnetically soft "small" (with the dipolar and exchange energy competition) cylindrical dots, but also in magnetically saturated "big" (when the exchange is neglected)…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 E. O. Kamenetskii

Bose mixture quantum droplets display a fascinating stability that relies on quantum fluctuations to prevent collapse driven by mean-field effects. Most droplet research focuses on untrapped or weakly trapped scenarios, where the droplets…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-27 T. A. Yoğurt , U. Tanyeri , A. Keleş , M. Ö. Oktel

Ultracold miscible mixtures of bosonic gases have been observed to form quantum droplet states stabilized by beyond-mean-field quantum fluctuations. Here we study the properties of the droplets when subjected to harmonic trapping in one…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-18 Srivatsa B. Prasad , Thomas P. Billam , Nick G. Parker

The rotation of a quantum liquid induces vortices to carry angular momentum. When the system is composed of multiple components that are distinguishable from each other, vortex cores in one component may be filled by particles of the other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 H. Saarikoski , A. Harju , J. Christensson , S. Bargi , M. Manninen , S. M. Reimann

We report on the observation of vortex formation in a Bose-Einstein condensate of Rb-87 atoms. Vortices are generated by superimposing an oscillating excitation to the trapping potential introduced by an external magnetic field. For small…