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  • CLEO/Europe and EQEC 2009 Conference Digest
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2009),
  • paper EC_P13

Superfluid critical velocity of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a flat potential

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Abstract

Specifically tailored potentials can potentially be helpful tools when investigating properties of ultra-cold gases. In this paper we study the superfluid critical velocity of Bose-Einstein condensates. Previous experimental investigations have gathered evidence for the existence of a critical velocity by moving tightly focussed optical dipole potentials [1,2] or impurities [3] through harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. However, their interpretation in tenns of a critical velocity is somewhat problematic as either the potential was accelerating [1], or the speed of sound varied as a function of position due to the inhomogeneity of the condensate density [2,3], In this paper we implement a flat-bottomed potential in order to study the superfluid critical velocity of a Bose-Einstein condensate without these limitations.

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