Excitation spectroscopy of vortex lattices in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Apr 30;92(17):170402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.170402. Epub 2004 Apr 30.

Abstract

Excitation spectroscopy of vortex lattices in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates is described. We numerically obtain the Bogoliubov-de Gennes quasiparticle excitations for a broad range of energies and analyze them in the context of the complex dynamics of the system. Our work is carried out in a regime in which standard hydrodynamic assumptions do not hold, and includes features not readily contained within existing treatments.