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Arbitrary-angle rotation of the polarization of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Srivatsa BadariprasadORCiD

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Abstract

We have employed the theory of harmonically trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates to examine the influence of a uniform magnetic field that rotates at an arbitrary angle to its own orientation. This is achieved by semi-analytically solving the dipolar superfluid hydrodynamics of this system within the Thomas-Fermi approximation and by allowing the body frame of the condensate's density profile to be tilted with respect to the symmetry axes of the nonrotating harmonic trap. This additional degree of freedom manifests itself in the presence of previously unknown stationary solution branches for any given dipole tilt angle. We also find that the tilt angle of the stationary state's body frame with respect to the rotation axis is a nontrivial function of the trapping geometry, rotation frequency, and dipole tilt angle. For rotation frequencies of at least an order of magnitude higher than the in-plane trapping frequency, the stationary state density profile is almost perfectly equivalent to the profile expected in a time-averaged dipolar potential that effectively vanishes when the dipoles are tilted along the “magic angle” 54.7 deg. However, by linearizing the fully time-dependent superfluid hydrodynamics about these stationary states, we find that they are dynamically unstable against the formation of collective modes, which we expect would result in turbulent decay.


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Author(s): Prasad SB, Mulkerin BC, Martin AM

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Physical Review A

Year: 2021

Volume: 103

Issue: 3

Online publication date: 23/03/2021

Acceptance date: 01/03/2021

Date deposited: 03/12/2021

ISSN (print): 2469-9926

ISSN (electronic): 2469-9934

Publisher: American Physical Society

URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.033322

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.033322


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