Abstract
A fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a quadratic-plus-quartic potential is found to dynamically generate a “giant vortex” that absorbs all phase singularities into a central low density hole, thereby sustaining a quasi-one-dimensional circular superflow at a supersonic speed.
- Received 8 February 2002
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.66.053606
©2002 American Physical Society
