arXiv · cond-mat/0201568
Critical rotation of a harmonically trapped Bose gas
Abstract
We study experimentally and theoretically a cold trapped Bose gas under critical rotation, i.e. with a rotation frequency close to the frequency of the radial confinement. We identify two regimes: the regime of explosion where the cloud expands to infinity in one direction, and the regime where the condensate spirals out of the trap as a rigid body. The former is realized for a dilute cloud, and the latter for a Bose-Einstein condensate with the interparticle interaction exceeding a critical value. This constitutes a novel system in which repulsive interactions help in maintaining particles together.
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P. Rosenbusch, D. S. Petrov, S. Sinha, F. Chevy, V. Bretin, Y. Castin, G. Shlyapnikov, J. Dalibard. 2002-03-08. Critical rotation of a harmonically trapped Bose gas. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.88.250403
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