Yrast line for weakly interacting trapped bosons pdf

Yrast line for weakly interacting trapped bosons

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We compute numerically the yrast line for harmonically trapped boson systems with a weak repulsive contact interaction, studying the transition to a vortex state as the angular momentum L increases and approaches N, the number of bosons. The L=N eigenstate is indeed dominated by particles with unit angular momentum, but the state has other significant components beyond the pure vortex configuration. There is a smooth crossover between low and high L with no indication of a quantum phase transition. Most strikingly, the energy and wave function appear to be analytical functions of L over the entire range 2 < L < N. We confirm the structure of low-L states proposed by Mottelson, as mainly single-particle excitations with two or three units of angular momentum

• Creator/s: George F. Bertsch, Thomas Papenbrock
• Date: 8/12/1999

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