Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Using the time-dependent mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation we study the dynamics of small repulsive Bose-Einstein condensed vortex states of ${}^{85}\mathrm{Rb}$ atoms in a cylindrical trap with low angular momentum $\ensuremath{\Elzxh}L$ per atom $(L<~6),$ when the atomic interaction is suddenly turned attractive by manipulating the external magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance. Consequently, the condensate collapses and ejects atoms via explosion and a remnant condensate with a smaller number of atoms emerges that survives for a long time. Details of this collapse and explosion are compared critically with a similar experiment performed with zero angular momentum $(L=0)$ by Donley et al. [Nature (London) 412, 295 (2001)]. A suggestion for a future experiment with the vortex state is made.
Source: Physical Review A
Author: Sadhan K. Adhikari
Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1972932688