Vortex structures of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in an anisotropic harmonic potential
Abstract
We found an analytical solution for the vortex structure in a rapidly rotating trapped Bose-Einstein condensate in the lowest Landau level approximation. This solution is exact in the limit of a large number of vortices and is obtained for the case of a condensate in a anisotropic harmonic potential. The solution describes as limiting cases both a triangle vortex lattice in the symmetric potential trap and a quasi-one-dimensional structure of vortex rows in an asymmetric case, when the rotation frequency is very close to the lower trapping potential frequency. The shape of the density profile is found to be close to the Thomas-Fermi inverted paraboloid form, except in the vicinity of edges of a condensate cloud.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- September 2010
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1004.3896
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvA..82c3628M
- Keywords:
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- 03.75.Lm;
- 05.30.Jp;
- 74.25.Uv;
- Tunneling Josephson effect Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials solitons vortices and topological excitations;
- Boson systems;
- Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 3 figures