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Composite fermion description of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

1999; American Physical Society; Volume: 60; Issue: 24 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevb.60.r16279

1095-3795

Nigel R. Cooper, N. K. Wilkin,

Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

We study the properties of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates in parabolic traps, with coherence length large compared to the system size. In this limit, it has been shown that unusual groundstates form which cannot be understood within a conventional many-vortex picture. Using comparisons with exact numerical results, we show that these groundstates can be well-described by a model of non-interacting ``composite fermions''. Our work emphasises the similarities between the novel states that appear in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates and incompressible fractional quantum Hall states.