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Effect of an impulsive force on vortices in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate Sadhan K. Adhikari and Paulsamy Muruganandam Instituto de F´ısica Te´orica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 01.405-900 S˜ao Paulo, S˜ao Paulo, Brazil (Dated: February 1, 2008) The effects of a sudden increase and decrease of the interatomic interaction and harmonic-oscillator trapping potential on vortices in a quasi two-dimensional rotating Bose-Einstein condensate are in- 2 vestigated using the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Upon increasing the strength of interac- 0 tion suddenly the condensate enters a nonstationary oscillating phase which starts to develop more 0 vortices. The opposite happens if the strength is reduced suddenly. Eventually, the number of vor- 2 tices attains a final value at large times. Similarly, the number of vortices increases (decreases) upon r a sudden reduction (augmentation) in the trapping potential. We also study the decay of vortices p when the rotation of the condensate is suddenly stopped. Upon a free expansion of a rotating BEC A with vortices the radius of the vortex core increases more rapidly than the radius of the condensate. This makes the counting and detection of multiple vortex easier after a free expansion. 2 1 PACS numbers: 03.75.Fi ] t f I. INTRODUCTION with repulsive interaction. In contrast to liquid 4He(II), o s a trapped BEC