Nucleation of vortex arrays in rotating anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates
David L. Feder, Charles W. Clark, Barry I. Schneider
The nucleation of vortices and the resulting structures of vortex arrays in dilute, trapped, zero-temperature Bose-Einstein condensates are investigated numerically. Vortices are generated by rotating a three-dimensional, anisotropic harmonic atom trap. The condensate ground state is obtained by propagating the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in imaginary time. Vortices first appear at a rotation frequency significantly larger than the critical frequency for vortex stabilization, consistent with a critical velocity mechanism for vortex nucleation. At higher frequencies, the structures of the vortex arrays are strongly influenced by trap geometry.
arXiv:cond-mat/9910288•Physical Review A•Dec 8, 1999•95 citations