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Vortex nucleation in a Bose–Einstein condensate: from the inside out

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Ian B. Spielman, Daniel Campbell, Ryan Price, Andika Putra, Dimitrius Trypogeorgos, Ana Vald?Curiel

Abstract

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 create vortices in the bulk of the merged condensate. Unlike previous implementations and in agreement with our Gross–Pitaevskii equation simulations, our dynamical process rapidly injects vortices into our system's bulk, and with initial number in excess of the system's equilibrium vortex number.
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New Journal of Physics
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Keywords

Bose Einstein Condensate, absorption imaging

Citation

Spielman, I. , Campbell, D. , Price, R. , Putra, A. , Trypogeorgos, D. and Vald?Curiel, A. (2016), Vortex nucleation in a Bose–Einstein condensate: from the inside out, New Journal of Physics, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=922271 (Accessed October 28, 2025)

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Created November 23, 2016, Updated June 2, 2021
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