Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2003-01-21
Phys.Rev. A 68, 011602(R) (2003)
Physics
Condensed Matter
4 pages, 2 figures; to appear in the Rapids section of Phys. Rev. A
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.011602
We investigate vortex-antivortex pair creation in a supersonically expanding and contracting quasi-2D Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature. For sufficiently large amplitude condensate oscillations, pair production provides the leading dissipation mechanism. The condensate oscillations decay in a nonexponential fashion, and the dissipation rate depends strongly on the oscillation amplitude. These features allow to distinguish the decay due to pair creation from other possible damping mechanisms. Experimental observation of the predicted oscillation behavior of the superfluid gas provides a direct confirmation of the hydrodynamical analogy of quantum electrodynamics and quantum vortex dynamics in two spatial dimensions.
Fedichev Petr O.
Fischer Uwe R.
Recati Alessio
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