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Phys. Rev. A 63, 043607 (2001) [10 pages]

Fluidity aspects of Bose-Einstein condensed systems

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G. C. Marques
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 66318, 05389-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil

V. Bagnato
Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Univesidade de São Paulo, Center for Optics and Photonics Research, C.P. 369, 13560-970 São Carlos, SP, Brazil

D. Spehler
Université Louis Pasteur, IUT, Allée d’Athènes, 67300 Schiltigheim, France

Received 6 October 2000; published 14 March 2001

We analyze some aspects of the fluidity of Bose-Einstein (BE) condensed systems. We show that a two-fluid picture of a condensed system holds true. The condensate is a quantum fluid component of the system. This component of the fluid satisfies the continuity equation and a generalized Bernoulli equation. Under certain conditions, the condensate component becomes a classical superfluid. We suggest that condensed systems might exhibit mechanochalorical and thermomechanical effects, in close analogy with superfluid helium-4. Quantized vortices are also expected to appear in a BE condensed system. We discuss the structure of quantized vortices.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.043607
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.63.043607
PACS:
03.75.Fi, 05.30.Jp, 02.70.Rr