Superfluidity of a laser-stirred Bose-Einstein condensate

Abstract

We study superfluidity of a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by stirring it with a Gaussian potential oscillating back and forth along the axial dimension of the condensate, motivated by experiments of C. Raman et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2502 (1999). Using classical-field simulations and perturbation theory we examine the induced heating rate, based on the total energy of the system, as a function of the stirring velocity $v$. We identify the onset of dissipation by a sharply increasing heating rate above a velocity $v_c$, which we define as the critical velocity. We show that $v_c$ is influenced by the oscillating motion, the strength of the stirrer, the temperature and the inhomogeneous density of the cloud. This results in a vanishing $v_c$ for the parameters similar to the experiments, which is inconsistent with the measurement of nonzero $v_c$. However, if the heating rate is based on the thermal fraction after a 100 ms equilibration time, our simulation recovers the experimental observations. We demonstrate that this discrepancy is due to the slow relaxation of the stirred cloud and dipole mode excitation of the cloud.

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