ISSN:
1434-6079
Keywords:
PACS. 32.80.Pj Optical cooling of atoms; trapping – 42.50.Vk Mechanical effects of light on atoms, molecules, electrons, and ions
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
Abstract: The atom optics of Bose-Einstein condensates containing a vortex of circulation one is discussed. We first analyze in detail the reflection of such a condensate falling on an atomic mirror. In a second part, we consider a rotating condensate in the case of attractive interactions. We show that for sufficiently large nonlinearity the rotational symmetry of the rotating condensate is broken.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00044-6
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