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Optical Visibility and Core Structure of Vortex Filaments in a Bosonic Superfluid

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We use optical images of a superfluid consisting of a weakly interacting Bose–Einstein condensate of sodium atoms to investigate the structure of quantized three-dimensional vortex filaments. We find that the measured optical contrast and the width of the vortex core quantitatively agree with the predictions of the Gross–Pitaevskii equation.

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  1. Notice that an equation of the same form was derived in [4], within a phenomenological theory for superfluids close to the normal-superfluid phase transition; the meaning of the coefficients is however entirely different.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We dedicate this paper to L.P. Pitaevskii in celebration of his 85th birthday. No words can express our gratitude for the times spent working alongside him and, of course, for his pioneering contributions to physics itself. This work is supported by Provincia Autonoma di Trento and by QuantERA ERA-NET cofund project NAQUAS.

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  1. INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitä di Trento, 38123, Trento, Italy

    F. Dalfovo, R. N. Bisset, C. Mordini, G. Lamporesi & G. Ferrari

  2. Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, INFN, 38123, Trento, Italy

    C. Mordini, G. Lamporesi & G. Ferrari

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Dalfovo, F., Bisset, R.N., Mordini, C. et al. Optical Visibility and Core Structure of Vortex Filaments in a Bosonic Superfluid. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 127, 804–811 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776118110018

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