Eur. Phys. J. B (2015) 88: 116
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2015-50775-4

Regular Article

Vortex dynamics of rotating Bose-Einstein condensate of microcavity polaritons

¹ Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 110016 New Delhi, India
² Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, UMR 5219, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France

^a e-mail: bpadhi1704@gmail.com
^b e-mail: romain.duboscq@math.univ-toulouse.fr

Received: 4 November 2014
Received in final form: 27 February 2015
Published online: 7 May 2015

Abstract

In this work we perform a numerical study of a rotating, harmonically trapped, Bose-Einstein condensate of microcavity polaritons. An efficient numerical method (toolbox) to solve the complex Gross-Pitaevskii equation is developed. Using this method, we investigate how the behavior of the number of vortices formed inside the condensate changes as the various system parameters are varied. In contrast to the atomic condensates, we show, there exists an (experimentally realizable) range of parameter values in which all the vortices can be made to vanish even when there is a high rotation. We further explore how this region can be tuned through other free parameters and also discuss how this study can help to realize the synthetic magnetic field for polaritons and hence paving the way for the realization of the quantum Hall physics and many other exotic phenomena.