Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Driving Phase Slips in a Superfluid Atom Circuit with a Rotating Weak Link

Published

Author(s)

Kevin C. Wright, William D. Phillips, Gretchen K. Campbell

Abstract

We have induced well-defined phase slips between quantized persistent current states around a toroidal atomic 23Na Bose-Einstein condensate by rotating a weak link (a localized region of reduced superfluid density) around the ring at low angular frequency. This is analogous to the behavior of a superconducting loop with a weak link in the presence of an external magnetic field. At higher angular frequencies, well-defined phase slips no longer occur, and vortices enter the condensate.
Citation
Physical Review Letters
Volume
110

Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensation, cold atoms, quantum physics

Citation

Wright, K. , Phillips, W. and Campbell, G. (2013), Driving Phase Slips in a Superfluid Atom Circuit with a Rotating Weak Link, Physical Review Letters, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.025302 (Accessed December 17, 2024)

Issues

If you have any questions about this publication or are having problems accessing it, please contact reflib@nist.gov.

Created January 10, 2013, Updated November 10, 2018