How to STIRAP a vortex

Details How to STIRAP a vortex How to STIRAP a vortex

2004-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401298v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

8 pages, 10 eps-figures, slightly revised and resubmitted to PRA

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We examine a scheme for the optical creation of a superfluid vortex in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), using the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) technique. By exposing an oblate, axis-symmetric condensate to two co-propagating laser pulses, one can transfer external angular momentum from the light field to the matter wave, if one of the beams is the fundamental Gaussian mode and the other is a Gauss-Laguerre mode of angular momentum $1\hbar$. We demonstrate the complete transfer efficiency by numerical integration of the multi-component Gross-Pitaevskii equation and explain the results with an intuitive and accurate approximation within the Thomas-Fermi limit. In addition, we discuss residual excitations (breathing modes) which occur in the two-dimensional regime and present the Bogoliubov excitation spectrum.

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