Rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in and near the lowest Landau level

We create rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in the lowest Landau level by spinning up the condensates to rotation rates Omega > 99% of the centrifugal limit for a harmonically trapped gas, while reducing the number of atoms. As a consequence, the chemical potential drops below the cyclotron energy 2 variant Planck's over 2pi Omega. While in this mean-field quantum-Hall regime we still observe an ordered vortex lattice, its elastic shear strength is strongly reduced, as evidenced by the observed very low frequency of Tkachenko modes. Furthermore, the gas approaches the quasi-two-dimensional limit. The associated crossover from interacting- to ideal-gas behavior along the rotation axis results in a shift of the axial breathing mode frequency.     

Collective oscillations of vortex lattices in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

The complete low-energy collective-excitation spectrum of vortex lattices is discussed for rotating Bose-Einstein condensates by solving the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation, yielding, e.g., the Tkachenko mode recently observed at JILA. The totally symmetric subset of these modes includes the transverse shear, common longitudinal, and differential longitudinal modes. We also solve the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation to simulate the actual JILA experiment, obtaining the Tkachenko mode and identifying a pair of breathing modes. Combining both approaches allows one to unambiguously identify every observed mode.     

Tkachenko oscillations and the compressibility of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate

The elastic oscillations of the vortex lattice of a cold Bose gas (Tkachenko modes) are shown to play a crucial role in the saturation of the compressibility sum rule, as a consequence of the hybridization with the longitudinal degrees of freedom. The presence of the vortex lattice is responsible for a q2 behavior of the static structure factor at small wave vectors q, which implies the absence of long range order in 2D configurations at zero temperature. Sum rules are used to calculate the Tkachenko frequency in the presence of harmonic trapping. Results are derived in the Thomas-Fermi regime and compared with experiments as well as with previous theoretical estimates.     

Vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates: A review of the experimental results

Rotating dilute Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) of alkali atoms offer a testing ground for theories of vortices in weakly interacting superfluids. In a rotating super-fluid, quantised vortices, with a vorticity h/m, form above a critical velocity. Such vortices have been generated in BEC of alkali atoms by different techniques such as (a) wave function engineering of a two-component BEC, (b) decay of solitons, (c) rotation of a thermal cloud before cooling it below the condensation temperature, (d) stirring with an ‘optical’ spoon, (e) rotating a deformation in the anisotropic trap in which the condensate is trapped and (f) by creating Berry phase by adiabatically reversing the axial magnetic field. Since the core of a vortex is a fraction of a micrometer in diameter, it cannot be directly imaged optically. The condensate with vortices is allowed to ballistically expand till the size increases by one order before the vortices are imaged. Surface wave spectroscopy and the change in aspect ratio of a rotating cloud are the other techniques used. Studies have been made on the creation and dynamics of single vortex and on systems with more than a hundred vortices. Results have been obtained on vortex nucleation, stability of vortex structures, nature of the vortex lattice and defects in such a lattice. Important results are: (a) evidence exists that vortex nucleation takes place by a surface mode instability; but this is not the only mechanism; (b) the vortex lattice is perfectly triangular right up to the edge; (c) in the initial stages of rotation of the cloud a tangled web of vortices is seen; it takes a few hundred milliseconds before the vortices arrange themselves in a lattice; this time appears to be independent of temperature; (d) the decay of vortices appears to arise from the transfer of energy to the rotating thermal component and is dependent on temperature; (e) defects in the lattices such as dislocations and grain boundaries are seen; (f) transverse oscillations (Tkachenko modes) of the vortex lattice have been observed; and (g) giant vortices have been produced. These will be discussed.     

Oscillations of a bose-einstein condensate rotating in a harmonic plus quartic trap

We study the normal modes of a two-dimensional rotating Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a quadratic plus quartic trap. Hydrodynamic theory and sum rules are used to derive analytical predictions for the collective frequencies in the limit of high angular velocities Omega where the vortex lattice produced by the rotation exhibits an annular structure. We predict a class of excitations with frequency sqrt[6]Omega in the rotating frame, irrespective of the mode multipolarity m, as well as a class of low energy modes with frequency proportional to |m|/Omega. The predictions are in good agreement with results of numerical simulations based on the 2D Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The same analysis is also carried out at even higher angular velocities, where the system enters the giant vortex regime.     

初始点火条件引起的三维旋转爆震波单/双波传播模式

在不同工况下,旋转爆震波能够以单波、双波、多波模式进行传播.但在同一工况下,是否存在不同模式的稳定传播爆震波还有待进一步研究.基于Euler方程,耦合氢气/空气的有限化学反应速率模型,并采用高分辨率的5阶有限差分格式WENO-PPM5离散对流项,对三维旋转爆震波进行了数值模拟.计算结果表明,在同一特定工况下,旋转爆震波能够以两种不同的传播模式稳定传播,即单波模式和双波模式.详细地对比了两种传播模式下的流场特征、爆震波传播特性、推力性能等.在同一工况下,两种传播模式的爆震波周向传播速度相差不多,但双波模式的频率约为单波模式的2倍;双波模式下质量流量、比冲、推力的平均值均略高于单波模式;且双波模式的可燃混气层高度约为单波模式的1/2,这有助于缩小旋转爆震发动机的长度,使之更加紧凑.      

Observation of Tkachenko oscillations in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

We directly image Tkachenko waves in a vortex lattice in a dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensate. The low (sub-Hz) resonant frequencies are a consequence of the small but nonvanishing elastic shear modulus of the vortex-filled superfluid. The frequencies are measured for rotation rates as high as 98% of the centrifugal limit for the harmonically confined gas. Agreement with a hydrodynamic theory worsens with increasing rotation rate, perhaps due to the increasing fraction of the volume displaced by the vortex cores. We also observe two low-lying m=0 longitudinal modes at about 20 times higher frequency.     

Nonlinear modes in rotating double well potential with parity–time symmetry

We investigate the nonlinear modes in a rotating double well potential with 79T symmetry. Focus on the existence and stability of the nonlinear PT modes in this system, we found that five types of PT modes can stably exist by given certain parameter settings. The multistable area between these modes are studied numerically and the bistable and tristable areas are delimited. With different input trial wavefunctions, five types of solitary wave modes are identified. We found that the rotating of the potential can significantly affect the power flow of the fundamental harmonic mode, whose effect is absent for the other modes.     

Vortex-lattice melting in a one-dimensional optical lattice

We investigate quantum fluctuations of a vortex lattice in a one-dimensional optical lattice for realistic numbers of particles and vortices. Our method gives full access to all the modes of the vortex lattice and we discuss in particular the Bloch bands of the Tkachenko modes. Because of the small number of particles in the pancake Bose-Einstein condensates at every site of the optical lattice, finite-size effects become very important. Therefore, the fluctuations in the vortex positions are inhomogeneous and the melting of the lattice occurs from the outside inwards. By looking into correlations between neighboring vortices, we identify new solid and liquid phases. Tunneling between neighboring pancakes substantially reduces the inhomogeneity as well as the size of the fluctuations.     

Mode transitions on the surface dust ion-acoustic wave in a semibounded dusty plasma

The effects of elongated rotating dust grains on the mode transitions of the dispersion relation of the surface dust ion-acoustic waves are investigated in a semi-bounded dusty plasma. The dispersion relation of the surface dust ion-acoustic wave is obtained by the plasma dielectric function with the specular reflection boundary condition. The result shows the existence of the dust ion-acoustic resonance modes in small and large wave number regions. It is also shown that the surface wave would be propagated in intermediate wave number domains. It is interesting to note that the wave propagation domain has been diminished with an increase of the rotation frequency.     

二维复式晶格完全带隙光子晶体缺陷频率的分析

提出了一种具有完全带隙的二维复式晶格光子晶体,该晶体是在二维正方形格子中,旋转截面为正方形的柱子,同时在每个原胞中心引入圆形截面的柱子而形成的,并在其中引入点缺陷。运用平面波展开法并结合超晶胞理论分析此缺陷态光子晶体的频率特性。仿真结果表明,通过调节缺陷的尺寸、角度等结构参量,可以改变缺陷态频率的位置,使TE和TM模缺陷态频率一致,TE模和TM模同时谐振,处于缺陷态频率的入射光就能够完全耦合进点缺陷,具有较高的耦合效率。这种结构的复式晶格完全带隙光子晶体为制作完全带隙光子晶体谐振腔提供了理论基础。     

离子晶格非简谐振动引起的光学非线性与增强吸收型光双稳

处理了光场（电磁场）与离子晶体的非简谐性振动之间的相互作用问题。导出了用简正坐标即声子模式所表达的非线性晶格动力学和非线性宏观极化。在旋转波近似下，得到在入射光驱动下光子－声子耦合体系的总的相干性哈密顿算符。通过相应的静态方程证明该耦合系统会出现增强吸收型光学双稳性，这也就证明了光场与各种玻色子型固体元激发，如光频支声子和半导体中激子的非线性耦合可以作为增强吸收型光双稳的机制。     

涡轮导向器对旋转爆轰波传播特性影响的实验研究

为了研究涡轮导向器对旋转爆轰波传播特性的影响,以氢气为燃料,空气为氧化剂,在不同当量比下开展了实验研究.基于高频压力传感器及静态压力传感器的信号,详细分析了带涡轮导向器的旋转爆轰燃烧室的工作模式以及涡轮导向器对非均匀不稳定爆轰产物的影响.实验结果表明:在当量比较低时,爆轰燃烧室以快速爆燃模式工作;逐渐增大当量比,爆轰燃烧室开始以不稳定旋转爆轰模式工作;继续增大当量比,爆轰燃烧室以稳定旋转爆轰模式工作,且旋转爆轰波的传播速度和稳定性均随当量比的增大逐渐提高.爆轰波下游的斜激波与涡轮导向器相互作用,涡轮导向器对压力振荡的幅值具有明显的抑制作用,但对压力振荡频率的影响较小.随着当量比的增大,涡轮导向器上下游的静压均同时增大,经过涡轮导向器的作用,涡轮下游静压明显降低.     

用不变本征算符法求晶面吸附原子的振动模

晶体表面的扩散和缺陷对晶体振动模式的影响是表面物理学研究的一个重要和基本的课题.晶格振动的频率对应于系统的能带.由于晶格中原子的振动不是孤立的,并且晶格具有周期性,所以在晶体中形成格波.格波代表晶体中所有原子都参与的频率相同的振动,又常称为一种振动模.本文讨论在表面吸附位势系数β_0与晶体内部原子的周期位势系数β不同的情况下,晶体表面吸附一个质量为m_0(与晶格原子质量m不同)的原子以后晶格的振动模.采用不变本征算符方法,严格地导出此振动模为ω=((2β(1-coshα))/(hm))~(1/2),其中α=ln[-(mβ_0+m_0(-2β+β_0)+(β_0)~(1/2)((-4mm_0β+(m+m_0)~2β_0))~(1/2)/2m_0β].此结果表明,ω不但取决于吸附位势与吸附原子的质量,也与晶格原子的质量与内位势有关.     

圆管结构中周向导波非线性效应的模式展开分析

在二阶微扰近似条件下, 采用导波模式展开分析方法研究了圆管结构中周向导波的非线性效应. 伴随基频周向导波传播所发生的二次谐波, 可视为由一系列二倍频周向导波模式叠加而成. 从动量定理出发, 结合柱坐标系下非线性应力张量及其散度的数学表达式, 针对圆管中某一基频周向导波模式, 推导出相应的二倍频应力张量及二倍频彻体驱动力的数学表达式, 建立了确定二倍频周向导波模式展开系数的控制方程, 得到了伴随基频周向导波传播所发生的二次谐波声场的形式解. 理论分析和数值计算表明, 当构成二次谐波声场的某一二倍频周向导波模式与基频周向导波的相速度匹配时, 该二倍频周向导波模式的位移振幅表现出随传播周向角积累增长的性质; 当两者的相速度失配时, 二倍频周向导波的振幅随传播周向角表现出“拍”效应.     

Stability characteristic of hypersonic flow over a blunt wedge under freestream pulse wave

To investigate the stability characteristic of hypersonic flow under the action of a freestream pulse wave, a high-order finite difference method was employed to do direction numerical simulation (DNS) of hypersonic unsteady flow over an 8° half-wedge-angle blunt wedge with freestream slow acoustic wave. The evolution of disturbance wave modes in the boundary layer under a pulse wave and a continuous wave are compared, and the wall temperature effect on the hypersonic boundary layer stability for a pulse wave disturbance is discussed. Results show that, both for a pulse wave and a continuous wave in freestream, the disturbance waves inside the nose boundary layer are mainly a fundamental mode; the Fourier amplitude of pressure disturbance mode in the boundary layer for a pulse wave is far less than that for a continuous wave, and the band frequency of the former is wider than that of the latter. All disturbance modes decay rapidly along the streamwise in the nose boundary layer. In the non-nose boundary layer, the dominant mode is transferred from fundamental mode into second harmonic. The transformation of dominant mode for a pulse wave appears much earlier than that for a continuous wave. Different frequency disturbance modes present different changes along streamline in the boundary layer, and the frequency band narrows around the second harmonic mode along the streamwise. Keen competition and the transformation of energy exist among different modes in the boundary layer. Wall temperature modifies the stability characteristic of the hypersonic boundary layer, which presents little effect on the development of fundamental modes and cooling wall could accelerates the growth of the high frequency mode as well as the dominant mode transformation.     

不稳定局域模及其对杂质中心吸收带宽的影响

本文运用羣论方法,把不稳定局域模和含杂晶格的带内本征矢的散射部分都按格位羣的不可约表示分了类。具体地讨论了最近邻相互作用的简单立方晶格的情况,计算结果表明:可。能产生同P(=γ′/γ)和(=m′/m)有关的T_1u型不稳定局域模和仅与P有关的简并的A_1g,E_g,T_1g,T_2g和简并的T_1u,T_2u型不稳定局域模,以及只有同一类型的对称性驻波才能为杂质所散射。这里m′和m分别为杂质原子和基质原子的质量;γ′和γ分别为杂质与近邻之间和一般近邻之间的力常数。以同样的模型计算了各种类型声子对杂质中心吸收带宽的贡献。指出,宽度很窄的g型不稳定局域模对带宽的贡献可能变得很大,而超过其余声子的总贡献。最后讨论了单有效频率近似可能有的微观理论基础的问题。     

Zonal flows in tokamak plasmas with toroidal rotation

Zonal flows in tokamak plasmas with toroidal rotation are theoretically investigated. It is found that the low-frequency branch of zonal flows, which is linearly stable in a nonrotating system, becomes linearly unstable in a rotating tokamak, and that the high-frequency branch of zonal flows, the geodesic acoustic mode, can propagate in the poloidal direction with the frequency significantly lower than the frequency of the standing wave geodesic acoustic mode in the nonrotating system.     

Giant vortex lattice deformations in rapidly rotating bose-einstein condensates

We have performed numerical simulations of giant vortex structures in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates within the Gross-Pitaevskii formalism. We reproduce the qualitative features, such as oscillation of the giant vortex core area, formation of toroidal density hole, and the precession of giant vortices, observed in the recent experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett., ()]]. We provide a mechanism which quantitatively explains the observed core oscillation phenomenon. We demonstrate the clear distinction between the mechanism of atom removal and a repulsive pinning potential in creating giant vortices. In addition, we have been able to simulate the transverse Tkachenko vortex lattice vibrations.     

晶格振动声学支的边界耦合效应

在计入最近邻二体和三体作用的简谐近似下, 解出了N X N 正方简单格子的振动模.边界效应使通常将声子分支和用波矢量来标注的物理图象完全改变了. 只能按空间型将声子分类.数字计算表明共价结构性质的加强可导致出现边界藕合软模. 还给出了旋转模、内旋转模、公度非公度结构模, 以及表面波声子模等一些新结果. 边界祸合作用消除了声子的一些简并, 使其频谱向高端和低端散开.理论被推广到三维一般情况, 说明了边界藕合效应的主要结果. 关键词：