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LASER PHYSICS
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 1-11Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1134/S1054660X08010015
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Trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) differ considerably from the standard textbook example of a uniform Bose gas. In an isotropic harmonic potential V(r) = 1/2M omega(2)r(2), the single-particle ground state introduces a new intrinsic scale of length [the ground-state size d = root hl(M omega)] and energy [the ground-state energy E-0 = 3/2 h omega]. When the trap rotates at a low angular velocity, the behavior of a single vortex illustrates the crucial role of discrete quantized vorticity. For more rapid rotation, the condensate contains a vortex array. The resulting centrifugal forces expand the condensate radially and shrink it axially; thus, the condensate becomes effectively two dimensional. If the external rotation speed approaches the frequency of the radial harmonic confining potential, the condensate enters the lowest-Landau-level regime, and a simple description again becomes possible. Eventually, the system is predicted to make a quantum phase transition to a highly correlated state analogous to the fractional quantum Hall states of electrons in a strong magnetic field.
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