Optical analog of the Iordanskii force in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Abstract
A vortex in a Bose-Einstein condensate generates the optical analog of the Aharonov-Bohm effect when illuminated with slow light. In contrast to the original Aharonov-Bohm effect the vortex will exchange forces with the light that leads to a measurable motion of the vortex.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- May 2003
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.053616
- Bibcode:
- 2003PhRvA..67e3616L
- Keywords:
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- 03.75.Kk;
- 03.65.Vf;
- 42.50.Gy;
- Dynamic properties of condensates;
- collective and hydrodynamic excitations superfluid flow;
- Phases: geometric;
- dynamic or topological;
- Effects of atomic coherence on propagation absorption and amplification of light;
- electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption