Physics – Condensed Matter – Other Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2004-08-23
Physics
Condensed Matter
Other Condensed Matter
4 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
The form and stability of quantum vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive atomic interactions is elucidated. They appear as ring bright solitons, and are a generalization of the Townes soliton to nonzero winding number $m$. An infinite sequence of radially excited stationary states appear for each value of $m$, which are characterized by concentric matter-wave rings separated by nodes, in contrast to repulsive condensates, where no such set of states exists. It is shown that robustly stable as well as unstable regimes may be achieved in confined geometries, thereby suggesting that vortices and their radial excited states can be observed in experiments on attractive condensates in two dimensions.
Carr Lincoln D.
Clark Charles W.
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