These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Stationary states of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate: routes to vortex nucleation.
    Author: Madison KW, Chevy F, Bretin V, Dalibard J.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2001 May 14; 86(20):4443-6. PubMed ID: 11384255.
    Abstract:
    Using a focused laser beam we stir a 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a magnetic trap. We observe that the steady states of the condensate correspond to an elliptic cloud, stationary in the rotating frame. These steady states depend nonlinearly on the stirring parameters (amplitude and frequency), and various solutions can be reached experimentally depending on the path followed in this parameter space. These states can be dynamically unstable and we observe that such instabilities lead to vortex nucleation in the condensate.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]