We use optical images of a superfluid consisting of a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium atoms to investigate the structure of quantized three-dimensional vortex filaments. We find that the measured optical contrast and the width of the vortex core quantitatively agree with the predictions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.

Optical Visibility and Core Structure of Vortex Filaments in a Bosonic Superfluid

F Dalfovo;C Mordini;G Lamporesi;G Ferrari
2018

Abstract

We use optical images of a superfluid consisting of a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium atoms to investigate the structure of quantized three-dimensional vortex filaments. We find that the measured optical contrast and the width of the vortex core quantitatively agree with the predictions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
2018
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - INO
vortex core
BEC
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