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Phys. Rev. A 60, 4882–4885 (1999)

Vortex rings and mutual drag in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

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B. Jackson, J. F. McCann*, and C. S. Adams
Department of Physics, Rochester Building, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom

Received 11 January 1999; published in the issue dated December 1999

We study the drag on an object moving through a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate, and show that finite compressibility leads to a mutual drag, which is subsequently suppressed by the formation of a vortex ring.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.60.4882
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.60.4882
PACS:
03.75.Fi, 67.40.Vs, 67.57.De

*Present address: Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.