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Imprinting Vortices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate using Topological Phases

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: Vortices were imprinted in a Bose-Einstein condensate using topological phases. Sodium condensates held in a Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap were transformed from a nonrotating state to one with quantized circulation by adiabatically inverting the magnetic bias field along the trap axis. Using surface wave spectroscopy, the axial angular momentum per particle of the vortex states was found to be consistent with 2 variant Planck's over 2pi or 4 variant Planck's over 2pi, depending on the hyperfine state of the condensate.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.190403

Authors: A. E. Leanhardt, A. Görlitz, A. P. Chikkatur, D. Kielpinski, Y. Shin, D. E. Pritchard, W. Ketterle

Institutions: MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office

OpenAlex ID: W2264035850

FWCI: 9.781

Cites: 24

Cited by: 394

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