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Observations on Sound Propagation in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. P. Simula, P. Engels, I. Coddington, V. Schweikhard, E. A. Cornell, R. J. Ballagh

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0407343

Abstract

Repulsive laser potential pulses applied to vortex lattices of rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates create propagating density waves which we have observed experimentally and modeled computationally to high accuracy. We have observed a rich variety of dynamical phenomena ranging from interference effects and shock-wave formation to anisotropic sound propagation.

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