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Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Dec 03;87(23):230403. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.230403. Epub 2001 Nov 15.

Adiabaticity criterion for moving vortices in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates.

Physical review letters

S M Virtanen, T P Simula, M M Salomaa

Affiliations

  1. Materials Physics Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 2200 (Technical Physics), FIN-02015 HUT, Finland.

PMID: 11736436 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.230403

Abstract

Considering a moving vortex line in a dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensate within time-dependent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov-Popov theory, we derive a criterion for the quasiparticle excitations to follow the vortex core rigidly. The assumption of adiabaticity, which is crucial for the validity of the stationary self-consistent theories in describing such time-dependent phenomena, is shown to imply a stringent criterion for the velocity of the vortex line. Furthermore, this condition is shown to be violated in the recent vortex precession experiments.

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