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Vortex precession in a rotating nonaxisymmetric trapped Bose-Einstein condensate

arXiv:cond-mat/0110102

Abstract

We study the precession of an off-axis straight vortex in a rotating nonaxisymmetric harmonic trap in the Thomas-Fermi (TF) regime. A time-dependent variational Lagrangian analysis yields the dynamical equations of the vortex and the precessional angular velocity in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) condensates.

9 pages, RevTeX, To appear in JLTP

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