Bose-Einstein condensates
Density contour in the plane z = 0.
I have studied the dynamics of vortex lattice formation of a rotating
trapped BEC by numerically solving the three-dimensional GPE.
The animation shows that the condensate is elongated along the x-axis because of a small anisotropy. The elliptic cloud oscillates. The condensate's boundary surface becomes unstable, exciting surface waves on the surface.