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Vortex formation in weakly-interacting inhomogeneous Bose condensates

1997/12/09 by B. Jackson, Brian Jackson, J F McCann +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #cond-mat.stat-mech

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9712096

4 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 1997/12/09 · openalex publication_date 1997/12/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We solve the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii in 2-D to simulate the flow of an object through a dilute Bose condensate trapped in a harmonic well. We demonstrate vortex formation and analyze the process in terms of the accumulation of phase-slip and the evolution of the fluid velocity.

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