Coherent disintegration and stability of vortices in trapped Bose condensates

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Abstract
We consider the intrinsic stability of the vortex states of a pure Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a harmonic potential under the effects of a coherent atom-atom interaction. We find that stable vortices can be supported and vortex stability can be controlled by changing the interparticle interaction strength. At unstable regimes, a vortex will spontaneously disintegrate into states with different angular momenta even without external perturbations, with the lifetime determined by its imaginary excitation frequencies.