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Vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates with anharmonic confinement

arXiv:cond-mat/0311066 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.70.023601

Abstract

We examine an effectively repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate of atoms, that rotates in a quadratic-plus-quartic trapping potential. We investigate the phase diagram of the system as a function of the angular frequency of rotation and of the coupling constant, demonstrating that there are phase transitions between multiply- and singly-quantized vortex states. The derived phase diagram is shown to be universal and exact in the limits of small anharmonicity and weak coupling constant.

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