MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR

Department of Mathematics
Princeton University
Princeton University Department of Mathematics Seminars Spring 2009 Schedule



Tuesday
November 17, 2009
4:30 p.m.
Jadwin 343

Jakob Yngvason
University of Vienna

The emergence of a giant vortex in a fast rotating Bose gas

A Bose gas in fast rotation normally exhibits a growing number of vortices of unit strength if the angular velocity is increased. In an anharmonic trap at sufficiently high velocity, however, a phase transition is expected: Vortices in the bulk should disappear and all vorticity become concentrated in a region where the density is very low. Moreover, the critical velocity for the transition is expected to increase with on the interaction strength in a definite manner. In the lecture rigorous results on this behavior within two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii theory will be presented. This is joint work with Michele Correggi and Nicolas Rougerie.

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