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Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3276–3279 (1996)

Binary Mixtures of Bose Condensates of Alkali Atoms

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Tin-Lun Ho and V. B. Shenoy
Physics Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

Received 20 May 1996; published in the issue dated 14 October 1996

We show that binary mixtures of Bose condensates of alkali atoms have a great variety of ground state and vortex structures which can be accessed experimentally by varying the particle numbers of different alkalis. We have constructed a simple algorithm to determine the density profiles of the mixtures within Thomas-Fermi approximation. Many structures of the alkali binary contain a coexisting region, which is the analog of the long sought 3He- 4He interpenetrating superfluids in ultralow temperature physics.

© 1996 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3276
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.3276
PACS:
03.75.Fi, 05.30.Jp