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Global structure of Bose-Einstein condensates at high rotation: Beyond the lowest Landau level description | | Gentaro Watanabe
; C. J. Pethick
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5 Feb 2004 | | Subject: | Soft Condensed Matter; Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect | cond-mat.soft cond-mat.mes-hall | | Abstract: | We study the global density profile of a rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensate in a harmonic trap with transverse frequency $omega_{perp}$. By introducing an additional variational degree of freedom to the lowest Landau level wave function, we demonstrate that with increasing strength of the interparticle interaction, the global density profile changes from a Gaussian to the inverted parabolic one characteristic of Thomas-Fermi theory. The criterion for the lowest Landau level wave function to be a good approximation for the global structure is that the mean field energy be small compared with $hbar omega_{perp}/N_{
m v}$, where $N_{
m v}$ is the number of vortices in the cloud. This condition is more stringent than the requirement that the mean field energy be small compared with $hbar omega_{perp}$ which is necessary for the lowest Landau level wave function to be a good approximation to the local structure. Our results show that the lowest Landau level wave function is inappropriate for the global structure of the system realized in recent experiments even though this wave function can describe the local structure well. | | Source: | arXiv, cond-mat/0402167 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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