Existence, stability and nonlinear dynamics of vortices and vortex clusters in anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates

DOI10.1007/10091_2012_10zbMATH Open1273.82046arXiv1203.4762OpenAlexW2152308060MaRDI QIDQ2840972FDOQ2840972

Authors: J. Stockhofe, P. Schmelcher, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis 

Publication date: 24 July 2013

Published in: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study vortex excitations in one-component Bose-Einstein condensates, with a special emphasis on the role of anisotropic confinement for the existence, stability and dynamical properties of vortices and particularly few-vortex clusters. Symmetry breaking features are pervasive within this system even in its isotropic installment, where cascades of symmetry breaking bifurcations give rise to the multi-vortex clusters, but also within the anisotropic realm which naturally breaks the rotational symmetry of the multi-vortex states. Our first main tool for analyzing the system consists of a weakly nonlinear (bifurcation) approach which starts from the linear states of the problem and examines their continuation and bifurcation into novel symmetry-broken configurations in the nonlinear case. This is first done in the isotropic limit and the modifications introduced by the anisotropy are subsequently presented. The second main tool concerns the highly nonlinear regime where the vortices can be considered as individual topologically charged "particles" which precess within the parabolic trap and interact with each other, similarly to fluid vortices. The conclusions stemming from both the bifurcation and the interacting particle picture are corroborated by numerical computations which are also used to bridge the gap between these two opposite-end regimes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4762

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22)

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