Showing papers by "ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences published in 2006"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantitatively study the dynamical response of a condensate flowing against an instantaneously raised spatially periodic defect, and they find that the critical velocity vc decreases by increasing the strength of the defect V0.
Abstract: According to the Landau criterion for superfluidity, a Bose–Einstein condensate flowing with a group velocity smaller than the sound velocity is energetically stable in the presence of perturbing potentials. We found that this is strictly correct only for vanishingly small perturbations. The superfluid critical velocity strongly depends on the strength and shape of the defect. We quantitatively study, both numerically and with an approximate analytical model, the dynamical response of a condensate flowing against an instantaneously raised spatially periodic defect. We found that the critical velocity vc decreases by increasing the strength of the defect V0, up to a critical value of the defect intensity where the critical velocity vanishes.
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