Vortices in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate under extreme elongation in a harmonic plus quartic trap

Abstract

The behaviors of a rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensate under extreme elongation in a two-dimensional anisotropic harmonic plus quartic trap are investigated. Due to the quartic trap, the system remains stable at high rotating velocity, $\ensuremath{\Omega}\ensuremath{\geqslant}{\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ (${\ensuremath{\omega}}_{\ensuremath{\perp}}$ is the radial harmonic trap frequency), and vortex lattices form even in the absence of the repulsive $s$-wave interaction ($g$). When $g$ is present, the interplay between $g$ and the quartic trap potential can lead to rich vortex lattice transition states as a function of $\ensuremath{\Omega}$, to which vortex lattices vanish eventually at some higher $\ensuremath{\Omega}$.