Abstract
We investigate vortex excitations in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of complex -symmetric potentials. These complex potentials are used to describe a balanced gain and loss of particles and allow an easier calculation of stationary states in open systems than in a full dynamical calculation including the whole environment. We examine the conditions under which stationary vortex states can exist and consider transitions from vortex to nonvortex states. In addition, we study the influences of symmetry on the dynamics of nonstationary vortex states placed at off-center positions.
3 More- Received 13 February 2017
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.053613
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