Splitting of doubly quantized vortices in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates
arXiv:0803.2187 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.78.025603
Abstract
We investigate the dynamics of doubly charged vortices generated in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates by using the topological phase imprinting technique. We find splitting times of such vortices and show that thermal atoms are responsible for their decay.
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