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Observation of hybrid soliton vortex-ring structures in Bose-Einstein condensates
Naomi S Ginsberg1, Joachim Brand, Lene Vestergaard Hau
1Department of Physics and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. ginsber@fas.harvard.edu
Abstract:
We present the experimental discovery of compound structures comprising solitons and vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates. We examine both their creation via soliton-vortex collisions and their subsequent development, which is largely governed by the dynamics of interacting vortex rings. A theoretical model in three-dimensional cylindrical symmetry is also presented.
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