Measurement of the angular momentum of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate

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We study the quadrupole oscillation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in an axisymmetric magnetic trap, after it has been stirred by an auxiliary laser beam. The stirring may lead to the nucleation of one or more vortices, whose presence is revealed unambiguously by the precession of the axes of the quadrupolar mode. For a stirring frequency $Ω$ below the single vortex nucleation threshold $Ω_c$, no measurable precession occurs. Just above $Ω_c$, the angular momentum deduced from the precession is $\sim \hbar$. For stirring frequencies above $Ω_c$ the angular momentum is a smooth and increasing function of $Ω$, until an angular frequency $Ω_c'$ is reached at which the vortex lattice disappears and the precession stops.
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Soft Condensed Matter, Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/219525

Consulte el texto completo en el siguiente enlace:

https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005221
 http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0005221
 Phys.Rev.Lett.85:2223-2227,2000
 doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.2223

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