Controlled Creation and Decay of Singly-Quantized Vortices in a Polar Magnetic Phase

Y. Xiao, M. O. Borgh, L. S. Weiss +3

We experimentally and theoretically explore the creation and time evolution of vortex lines in the polar magnetic phase of a trapped spin-1 ${}^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensate. A pr…