Effect of optical lattice on rotating Bose–Einstein condensates in synthetic magnetic field

Abstract

In this paper, we study the static and dynamic properties of vortices formation in a rotating Bose–Einstein condensate in synthetic magnetic field. The condensate is confined in a harmonic potential and an optical lattice potential. We numerically solve the time-dependent Gross–Pitaevskii equation in two dimensions and compare the vortices formation process with rotating frame method. We derive the two expressions about vortex number N[Formula: see text] and chemical potential [Formula: see text] as a function of rotational frequency [Formula: see text], which show that the number of vortices N[Formula: see text] increases linearly with [Formula: see text], while the chemical potential [Formula: see text] remains nearly unchanged with increasing [Formula: see text]. The analytical results are in qualitative agreement with the numerical ones. Moreover, we also investigate the vortex dynamics. Numerical results indicate that the time spent for the formation of steady state vortices is reduced drastically if the optical lattice is considered. Nevertheless, the synthetic magnetic field approach is still low efficient to generate more vortices.