Synthetic magnetohydrodynamics in Bose-Einstein condensates and routes to vortex nucleation
Synthetic magnetohydrodynamics in Bose-Einstein condensates and routes to vortex nucleation
Engineering of synthetic magnetic flux in Bose-Einstein condensates [Lin et al., Nature {\bf 462}, 628 (2009)] has prospects for attaining the high vortex densities necessary to emulate the fractional quantum Hall effect. We analytically establish the hydrodynamical behaviour of a condensate in a uniform synthetic magnetic field, including its density …