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We calculate the vortex structures of an elongated two-component Bose-Einstein condensate. We study how these structures depend on the intra-component and inter-component interaction strengths. We present analytic and numeric results…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-09 Ran Wei , Erich Mueller

We observe solitonic vortices in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate after free expansion. Clear signatures of the nature of such defects are the twisted planar density depletion around the vortex line, observed in absorption images, and the…

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…

We predict the existence of spatially localized nontrivial vortex states of a Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive atomic interaction confined by a three-dimensional optical lattice. Such vortex-like structures include planar vortices,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tristram J. Alexander , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

The vortex density of a rotating superfluid, divided by its particle mass, dictates the superfluid's angular velocity through the Feynman relation. To find how the Feynman relation applies to superfluid mixtures, we investigate a rotating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryan Barnett , Gil Refael , Mason A. Porter , Hans Peter Buchler

We present a theoretical study of vortices within a harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate in a rotating optical lattice. Due to the competition between vortex-vortex interactions and pinning to the optical lattice we find a very…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniel S. Goldbaum , Erich J. Mueller

We study the dynamics of vortex nucleation and lattice formation in a Bose--Einstein condensate in a rotating square optical lattice by numerical simulations of the Gross--Pitaevskii equation. Different dynamical regimes of vortex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-23 Akira Kato , Yuki Nakano , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Tetsuo Matsui

The occurrence of vortices in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) enables a description of their superfluid behaviour. In this article we present a pedagogical introduction to the vortex physics in trapped atomic BECs. The mechanism of…

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We study the three-dimensional ground state vortex lattice structures of purely dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). By using the mean-field model we obtain a stability diagram for the vortex states in purely dipolar BECs as a function…

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 reveal underlying principles of nonlinear localization of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a one-dimensional optical lattice. Our theory shows that spin-dependent optical lattices can be used to manipulate both the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Yuri S. Kivshar

We present a simple mechanism to produce vortices at any desired spatial locations in harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with multicomponent spin states coupled to external transverse and axial magnetic fields. The…

We present the experimental discovery of compound structures comprising solitons and vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We examine both their creation via soliton-vortex collisions and their subsequent development, which is…

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We study the formation of vortices, vortex necklaces and vortex ring structures as a result of the interference of higher-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). This study is motivated by earlier theoretical results pertaining to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-09 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , N. Whitaker , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

In order to study the rotating strongly coupled Bose-Einstein condensations(BEC), a holographic model defined in an AdS black hole that duals to a coupled two-component condensations in global $U(1)$ symmetry broken phase with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-26 Wei-Can Yang , Chuan-Yin Xia , Muneto Nitta , Hua-Bi Zeng

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

We observed a new mechanism for vortex nucleation in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subject to synthetic magnetic fields. We made use of a strong synthetic magnetic field initially localized between a pair of merging BECs to rapidly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-20 R. M. Price , D. Trypogeorgos , D. L. Campbell , A. Putra , A. Valdés-Curiel , I. B. Spielman

Recently, we presented a new numerical scheme for vortex lattice formation in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) with an explicit time-integrating scheme; our SPH scheme could reproduce the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Satori Tsuzuki , Eri Itoh , Katsuhiro Nishinari

We study circularly-symmetric phase separation of vortex lattices in a rapidly rotating harmonically-trapped quasi--two-dimensional binary Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by introducing a weak quartic trap in one of the components. The…

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