Cold matter trapping via slowly rotating helical potential

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2011.11.033MaRDI QIDQ1933152zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. Yu. Okulov

Publication date 22 January 2013

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.4213

zbMATH Keywords

angular momentum of vorticesmacroscopic many-body wavefunctionoptical dipole trapssuperfluid hydrodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Ion traps (78A37) Superfluids (classical aspects) (76A25)

Abstract: We consider the cold bosonic ensemble trapped by a helical interference pattern in the optical extit{loop} scheme. This rotating helical potential is produced by the two slightly detuned counter propagating Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams with counter directed orbital angular momenta $pmellhbar$. The detuning $deltaomega$ may occur due to rotational Doppler effect. The superfluid hydrodynamics is analysed for the large number of trapped atoms in Thomas-Fermi approximation. For the highly elongated trap the Gross-Pitaevskii equation is solved in a slowly varying envelope approximation. The speed of axial translation and angular momenta of interacting atomic cloud are evaluated. In the $Tightarrow0$ limit the angular momentum of the helical cloud is expected to be zero while toroidal trapping geometry leads to $2ellhbar$ angular momentum per trapped atom.

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