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arXiv:cond-mat/0401516 · Physical Review Letters

Tkachenko Oscillations and the Compressibility of a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate

Marco Cozzini, Лев П. Питаевский, S. Stringari

Published Jun 3, 2004• 28 citations
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Abstract

The elastic oscillations of the vortex lattice of a cold Bose gas (Tkachenko modes) are shown to play a crucial role in the saturation of the compressibility sum rule, as a consequence of the hybridization with the longitudinal degrees of freedom. The presence of the vortex lattice is responsible for a q2 behavior of the static structure factor at small wave vectors q, which implies the absence of long range order in 2D configurations at zero temperature. Sum rules are used to calculate the Tkachenko frequency in the presence of harmonic trapping. Results are derived in the Thomas-Fermi regime and compared with experiments as well as with previous theoretical estimates.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.92.220401

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