Critical velocity in cylindrical Bose-Einstein condensates
- 14 March 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 63 (4) , 045601
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.63.045601
Abstract
We describe a dramatic decrease of the critical velocity in elongated cylindrical Bose-Einstein condensates which originates from the nonuniform character of the radial density profile. We discuss this mechanism with respect to recent measurements at MIT.Keywords
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