Berry Phase Effects on Dynamics of Quasiparticles in a Superfluid with a Vortex

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2005-07-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507125v4

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 040401 (2006).

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.040401

We study quasiparticle dynamics in a Bose-Einstein condensate with a vortex by following the center of mass motion of a Bogoliubov wavepacket, and find important Berry phase effects due to the background flow. We show that Berry phase invalidates the usual canonical relation between the mechanical momentum and position variables, leading to important modifications of quasiparticle statistics and thermodynamic properties of the condensates. Applying these results to a vortex in an infinite uniform superfluid, we find that the total transverse force acting on the vortex is proportional to the superfluid density. We propose an experimental setup to directly observe Berry phase effects through measuring local thermal atoms momentum distribution around a vortex.

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