Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1999-07-07
Physics
Condensed Matter
5 pages, 6 postscript figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.61.023605
The expansion of Bose-Einstein condensates with quantized vortices is studied by solving numerically the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation at zero temperature. For a condensate initially trapped in a spherical harmonic potential, we confirm previous results obtained by means of variational methods showing that, after releasing the trap, the vortex core expands faster than the radius of the atomic cloud. This could make the detection of vortices feasible, by observing the depletion of the density along the axis of rotation. We find that this effect is significantly enhanced in the case of anisotropic disc-shaped traps. The results obtained as a function of the anisotropy of the initial configuration are compared with the analytic solution for a noninteracting gas in 3D as well as with the scaling law predicted for an interacting gas in 2D.
Dalfovo Franco
Modugno Michele
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