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Phys. Rev. A 75, 031604(R) (2007) [4 pages]

Dynamics of vortex matter in rotating two-species Bose-Einstein condensates

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S. J. Woo, S. Choi, L. O. Baksmaty, and N. P. Bigelow
Department of Physics and Astronomy and Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA

Received 25 September 2006; published 27 March 2007

In a rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), the traditional triangular vortex lattice can be replaced by a rectangular vortex lattice or even a structure characterized in terms of vortex sheets, depending on the interspecies interactions. We study the dynamics of this system by analyzing the Bogoliubov excitation spectrum. Excitations familiar to BEC vortex systems are found such as Tkachenko modes, hydrodynamic modes, and surface waves, however, the complex two-component morphology also gives rise to phenomena including shear flow between vortex sheets.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.031604
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.031604
PACS:
03.75.Kk, 03.75.Lm, 03.75.Mn, 05.30.Jp