Critical superfluid velocity in a trapped dipolar gas

Details Critical superfluid velocity in a trapped dipolar gas Critical superfluid velocity in a trapped dipolar gas

2009-12-29

arxiv.org/abs/0912.5261v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

5 pages, 4 figures, version accepted to PRL

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We investigate the superfluid properties of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a fully three-dimensional trap. Specifically, we calculate a superfluid critical velocity for this system by applying the Landau criterion to its discrete quasiparticle spectrum. We test this critical velocity by direct numerical simulation of condensate depletion as a blue-detuned laser moves through the condensate. In both cases, the presence of the roton in the spectrum serves to lower the critical velocity beyond a critical particle number. Since the shape of the dispersion, and hence the roton minimum, is tunable as a function of particle number, we thereby propose an experiment that can simultaneously measure the Landau critical velocity of a dipolar BEC and demonstrate the presence of the roton in this system.

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