Driving Bose-Einstein condensate vorticity with a rotating normal cloud

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2001-06-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0106362v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.87:210403,2001

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 revtex pages, 3 embedded figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.210403

We have developed an evaporative cooling technique that accelerates the circulation of an ultra-cold $^{87}$Rb gas, confined in a static harmonic potential. As a normal gas is evaporatively spun up and cooled below quantum degeneracy, it is found to nucleate vorticity in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Measurements of the condensate's aspect ratio and surface-wave excitations are consistent with effective rigid-body rotation. Rotation rates of up to 94% of the centrifugal limit are inferred. A threshold in the normal cloud's rotation is observed for the intrinsic nucleation of the first vortex. The threshold value lies below the prediction for a nucleation mechanism involving the excitation of surface-waves of the ground-state condensate.

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