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On the detection of condensate vortex states

E. V. Goldstein, E. M. Wright, P. Meystre

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9712130

Abstract

We discuss a detection scheme that reveals the existence of vortex states in a cylindrically symmetric condensate trap. It relies on the measurement of the second-order correlation function of the Schrödinger field, and yields directly the topological charge of the vortex state.

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