Authors: Enikő J M Madarassy Carlo F Barenghi
Publish Date: 2008/05/14
Volume: 152, Issue: 3-4, Pages: 122-135
Abstract
We perform numerical simulations of vortex motion in a trapped BoseEinstein condensate by solving the twodimensional GrossPitaevskii Equation in the presence of a simple phenomenological model of interaction between the condensate and the finite temperature thermal cloud At zero temperature the trajectories of a single offcentred vortex precessing in the condensate and of a vortexantivortex pair orbiting within the trap excite acoustic emission At finite temperatures the vortices move to the edge of the condensate and vanish By fitting the finitetemperature trajectories we relate the phenomenological damping parameter to the friction coefficients α and α′ which are used to describe the interaction between quantised vortices and the normal fluid in superfluid helium
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