Excitation spectrum of vortex-lattice modes in a rotating condensate with a density-dependent gauge potential

Abstract

We investigate the collective excitation spectrum of a quasi-two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a harmonic confinement with nonlinear rotation induced by a density-dependent gauge potential. Using a Bogoliubov--de Gennes (BdG) analysis, we show that the dipole mode frequency depends strongly on the nonlinear interaction strength, violating Kohn's theorem which is also well complemented by the analytical expression for the dipole and breathing modes obtained employing a variational analysis. We identify four different vortex displacement modes, Tkachenko, circular, quadratic, and rational, whose frequencies are rotation sensitive. An analytical Tkachenko mode frequency from a hydrodynamic approach agrees well with that computed using BdG and Fourier analysis. The excitation spectrum remains symmetric around the angular quantum number $l=0$, but energy splitting between $l$ and $\ensuremath{-}l$ varies with the sign and strength of the nonlinear rotation. Finally, we demonstrate that the surface mode excitation frequency increases (decreases) with an increase in the positive (negative) nonlinear rotation strength.