Composite fermion description of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

Nigel Cooper, Nicola Wilkin

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Abstract

We study the properties of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in parabolic traps, with coherence length large compared to the system size. In this limit, it has been shown that unusual ground states form which cannot be understood within a conventional many-vortex picture. Using comparisons with exact numerical results, we show that these ground states can be well-described by a model of noninteracting "composite fermions." Our work emphasizes the similarities between the unusual states that appear in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates and incompressible fractional quantum Hall states. [S0163-1829(99)50148-3].
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)16279-16282
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume60
Issue number24
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 1999

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