Dobrek, Ł.; Gajda, M.; Lewenstein, M.; Sengstock, K.; Birkl, G.; Ertmer, Wolfgang
(American Physical Society, 1999)
We demonstrate numerically the efficient generation of vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) by using a “phase imprinting” method. The method consists of passing a far-off-resonant laser pulse through an absorption ...