Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2004-06-21
Physical Review Letters 93(8):080406 (August 2004)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
5 pages, 7 figures to be published in PRL
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.080406
We have measured the precession frequency of a vortex lattice in a Bose-Einstein condensate of 87Rb atoms. The observed mode corresponds to a collective motion in which all the vortices in the array are tilted by a small angle with respect to the z-axis (the symmetry axis of the trapping potential) and synchronously rotate about this axis. This motion corresponds to excitation of a Kelvin wave along the core of each vortex and we have verified that it has the handedness expected for such helical waves, i.e. precession in the opposite sense to the rotational flow around the vortices. The experimental method used to excite this collective mode closely resembles that used to study the scissors mode and excitation of the scissors mode for a condensate containing a vortex array was used to determine the angular momentum of the system. Indeed, the collective tilting of the array that we have observed has previously been referred to as an `anomalous' scissors mode.
Foot Christopher J.
Heathcote W. H.
Krueger J. M.
Smith N. L.
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