Generating and Manipulating Quantized Vortices in Highly Oblate Bose-Einstein Condensates

This dissertation presents several experimental methods that were devised to generate or manipulate quantized vortices in highly oblate dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Studies that involve single vortex dynamics, vortex-vortex interactions, and vortex-impurity interactions are essentia...

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Main Author: Samson, Edward Carlo Copon
Other Authors: Anderson, Brian P.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/228499