Wright, K.
, Phillips, W.
and Campbell, G.
(2013),
Driving Phase Slips in a Superfluid Atom Circuit with a Rotating Weak Link, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.025302
(Accessed April 19, 2024)
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Driving Phase Slips in a Superfluid Atom Circuit with a Rotating Weak Link
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We have induced well-defined phase slips between quantized persistent current states around a toroidal atomic 23Na Bose-Einstein condensate by rotating a weak link (a localized region of reduced superfluid density) around the ring at low angular frequency. This is analogous to the behavior of a superconducting loop with a weak link in the presence of an external magnetic field. At higher angular frequencies, well-defined phase slips no longer occur, and vortices enter the condensate.Citation
Physical Review Letters
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110
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Keywords
Bose-Einstein condensation, cold atoms, quantum physics
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Created January 10, 2013, Updated November 10, 2018