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Journal of Optics

Suppression of collapse for matter waves with orbital angular momentum

Jasur A. Abdullaev, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Elena A. Ostrovskaya

Published Apr 28, 2011• 24 citations
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Abstract

We explore the influence of the orbital angular momentum on the collapse of vortex-free elliptic clouds of Bose–Einstein condensates with a negative scattering length trapped in a radially symmetric harmonic potential. We show that the number of trapped ultracold atoms corresponding to the collapse threshold can be radically increased for such rotating nonlinear matter waves. Below the threshold the elliptic mode is stable and exhibits periodic oscillations around a stationary rotating state. The frequency of these oscillations is independent of the number of particles and is determined solely by the trapping potential.

DOI
10.1088/2040-8978/13/6/064023

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Abstract In a harmonically-trapped rotating Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC), a vortex of large angular momentum decays to multiple vortices of unit angular momentum from an energetic consideration. We demonstrate the formation of a robust and dynamically stable giant vortex of large angular momentum in a harmonically trapped rotating BEC with a potential hill at the center, thus forming a Mexican hat like trapping potential. For a small inter-atomic interaction strength, a highly controllable stable giant vortex appears, whose angular momentum slowly increases as the angular frequency of rotation is increased. As the inter-atomic interaction strength is increased beyond a critical value, only vortices of unit angular momentum are formed, unless the strength of the potential hill at the center is also increased: for a stronger potential hill at the center a giant vortex is again formed. The dynamical stability of the giant vortex is demonstrated by real-time propagation numerically. These giant vortices of large angular momentum can be observed and studied experimentally in a highly controlled fashion.