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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review Letters Année : 2001

Stationary states of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate: routes to vortex nucleation

K.W. Madison
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Jean Dalibard

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Using a focused laser beam we stir a $^{87}$Rb 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.

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hal-00002550 , version 1 (14-08-2004)

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K.W. Madison, Frédéric Chevy, Vincent Bretin, Jean Dalibard. Stationary states of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate: routes to vortex nucleation. Physical Review Letters, 2001, 86, pp.4443. ⟨hal-00002550⟩
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