Persistent currents in toroidal dipolar supersolids

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We investigate the rotational properties of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a toroidal geometry. Studying the ground states in the rotating frame and at fixed angular momenta, we observe that the condensate acts in distinctly different ways depending on whether it is in the superfluid or in the supersolid phase. We find that intriguingly, the toroidal dipolar condensate can support a supersolid persistent current which occurs at a local minimum in the ground state energy as a function of angular momentum, where the state has a vortex solution in the superfluid component of the condensate. The decay of this state is prevented by a barrier that in part consists of states where a fraction of the condensate mimics solid-body rotation in a direction opposite to that of the vortex. Furthermore, we find that superfluid condensates may enter the supersolid phase when forced to take angular momentum. Last, the rotating toroidal supersolid shows hysteretic behavior that is qualitatively different depending on the superfluid fraction of the condensate.

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Tengstrand, M. N., Boholm, D., Sachdeva, R., Bengtsson, J., & Reimann, S. M. (2021). Persistent currents in toroidal dipolar supersolids. Physical Review A, 103(1). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.013313

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