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Winding up superfluid in a torus via Bose Einstein condensation
Creators
- 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
Optional Information
- 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