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Vortex nucleation in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

G. M. Kavoulakis

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0410149

Abstract

We study the formation and stability of a single vortex state in a weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate that is confined in a rotating harmonic potential. Our results are consistent with the fact that any single off-center vortex is unstable. Furthermore, a vortex state located at the center of the cloud first becomes locally stable as the rotational frequency increases. Finally our study implies the existence of hysteresis effects.

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