title: Structure and stability of vortices in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates at ultralow temperatures.
abstract: We compute the structure of a quantized vortex line in a harmonically trapped dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensate using the Popov version of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov mean-field theory. The vortex is shown to be (meta)stable in a nonrotating trap even in the zero-temperature limit, thus confirming that weak particle interactions induce for the condensed gas a fundamental property characterizing "classical" superfluids. We present the structure of the vortex at ultralow temperatures and discuss the crucial effect of the thermal gas component to its energetic stability.
authors: Materials Physics Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 2200 (Technical Physics), FIN-02015 HUT, Finland.
authors: S M
authors: SM
authors: Virtanen
authors: T P
authors: TP
authors: Simula
authors: M M
authors: MM
authors: Salomaa