arXiv:cond-mat/0006348 · Physical Review A
Vortex states in a binary mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates
S. T. Chui, Valentin Nikolaevich Ryzhov, Elena E. Tareyeva
Abstract
The vortex configurations in the Bose-Einstein condensate of a mixture of two different spin states $|{F=1,m}_{f}=\ensuremath{-}1〉$ and $|2,1〉$ of ${}^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ atoms corresponding to the recent experiments by Matthews et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2498 (1999)] are considered in the framework of the Thomas-Fermi approximation as functions of ${N}_{2}{/N}_{1},$ where ${N}_{1}$ is the number of atoms in the state $|1,\ensuremath{-}1〉$ and ${N}_{2}$ in the state $|2,1〉.$ Ranges of this ratio are determined within which the various configurations of the binary condensate are stable.