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Engineering of synthetic magnetic flux in Bose-Einstein condensates [ Lin et al. Nature (London) 462 628 (2009)] has prospects for attaining the high vortex densities necessary to emulate the fractional quantum Hall effect. We analytically establish the hydrodynamical behavior of a condensate in a uniform synthetic magnetic field, including its density and velocity profile. Importantly, we find that the onset of vortex nucleation observed experimentally corresponds to a dynamical instability in the hydrodynamical solutions and reveal other routes to instability and anticipated vortex nucleation.
Author(s): Taylor LB, van Bijnen RMW, O'Dell DHJ, Parker NG, Kokkelmans SJJMF, Martin AM
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Physical Review A
Year: 2011
Volume: 84
Issue: 2
Print publication date: 18/08/2011
Date deposited: 09/01/2012
ISSN (print): 0556-2791
Publisher: American Physical Society
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.021604
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.021604
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