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T P Simula1, P Engels, I Coddington
1Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Abstract:
Repulsive laser potential pulses applied to vortex lattices of rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates create propagating density waves which we have observed experimentally and modeled computationally to high accuracy. We have observed a rich variety of dynamical phenomena ranging from interference effects and shock-wave formation to anisotropic sound propagation.
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