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Stirring Bose-Einstein condensate

Bogdan Damski, Krzysztof Sacha, Jakub Zakrzewski

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0205478

Abstract

By shining a tightly focused laser light on the condensate and moving the center of the beam along the spiral line one may stir the condensate and create vortices. It is shown that one can induce rotation of the condensate in the direction opposite to the direction of the stirring.

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