Stability of a Vortex in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate
arXiv:cond-mat/0109514
Abstract
We propose a method to create a vortex in BEC utilizing the spin degree of freedom. We consider the optical plug at the center of the vortex, which makes the vortex-creation process stable. We also investigate the instability of the halfway state to complete vortex state without the optical plug.
6 pages, 5 figures, manuscript for QFS2001