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Winding up superfluid in a torus via Bose Einstein condensation

  • 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM (United States)

Description

We simulate Bose-Einstein condensation at finite temperature in a ring employing stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation and show that cooling through the critical point can generate topologically stable quantized circulation of the newborn condensate around the ring. The resulting winding numbers exhibiting Gaussian distribution with dispersion following scaling behavior predicted by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism (KZM). This opens up possibilities for direct experimental study of the underlying phase transition and the basic principles of KZM extended to account for such circulations. We discuss the effect of inhomogeneity on the above phenomenon by considering the effect of tilting of the ring in the gravitational field.

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Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
6 p.
Report number
LA-UR--10-08365

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
43119323
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; CONDENSATES; DISTRIBUTION; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS

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Contract/Grant/Project number
AC52-06NA25396
Notes
doi 10.2172/1044896
Funding organization
US Department of Energy (United States)
Secondary number(s)
LA-UR--10-8365