State Key Laboratory of Space Weather, Center for Space Science and Applied Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China; Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton, Swansea, UK
Abstract:
We employ the parallel computing technology to study numerically the
three-dimensional structure of quantized vortices of Bose--Einstein
condensates. For anisotropic cases, the bending process of vortices
is described in detail by the decrease of Gross--Pitaevskii energy. A
completely straight vortex and the steady and symmetrical
multiple-vortex configurations are obtained. We analyse the effect of
initial conditions and angular velocity on the number and shape of
vortices.