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## Capillary-gravity waves: a "fixed-depth" analysis

Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Europhysics Letters

## Kelvin Modes of a fast rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate

Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. A

## Wave Resistance for Capillary Gravity Waves: Finite Size Effects

Comment: EPL, in press

## Measurement of the angular momentum of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate

We study the quadrupole oscillation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in an axisymmetric magnetic trap, after it has been stirred by an auxiliary laser beam. The stirring may lead to the nucleation of one or more vortices, whose presence is revealed unambiguously by the precession of the axes of the quadrupolar mode. For a stirring frequency $\Omega$ below the single vortex nucleation threshold $\Omega_c$, no measurable precession occurs. Just above $\Omega_c$, the angular momentum deduced from the precession is $\sim \hbar$. For stirring frequencies above $\Omega_c$ the angular momentum is a smooth and increasing function of $\Omega$, until an angular frequency $\Omega_c'$ is reached at which the vortex lattice disappears and the precession stops.

## Collision of two spin-polarized fermionic clouds

We study the collision of two spin-polarized Fermi clouds in a harmonic trap using a simulation of the Boltzmann equation. As observed in recent experiments, we find three distinct regimes of behavior. For weak interactions the clouds pass through each other. If interactions are increased they approach each other exponentially and for strong interactions they bounce off each other several times. We thereby demonstrate that all these phenomena can be reproduced using a semiclassical collisional approach and that these changes in behavior are associated with an increasing collision rate. We then show that the oscillation of the clouds in the bounce regime is an example of an unusual case in quantum gases: a nonlinear coupling between collective modes, namely, the spin dipole mode and the axial breathing mode, which is enforced by collisi...

## Boltzmann equation simulation for a trapped Fermi gas of atoms

The dynamics of an interacting Fermi gas of atoms at sufficiently high temperatures can be efficiently studied via a numerical simulation of the Boltzmann equation. In this paper, we describe in detail the setup we used recently to study the oscillations of two spin-polarized fermionic clouds in a trap. We focus here on the evaluation of interparticle interactions. We compare different ways of choosing the phase space coordinates of a pair of atoms after a successful collision and demonstrate that the exact microscopic setup has no influence on the macroscopic outcome.

## Self-consistent theory of capillary-wave generation by small moving objects

We investigate theoretically the onset of capillary-gravity waves created by a small object moving at the water-air interface. It is well established that, for straight uniform motion, no steady waves appear at velocities below the minimum phase velocity $c_\text{min} = 23 {\rm cm/s}$. At higher velocities the emission of capillary-gravity waves creates an additional drag force. The behavior of this force near the critical velocity is still poorly understood. A linear response theory where the object is replaced by an effective pressure source predicts a singular behavior for the wave drag. However, experimental data tends to indicate a more continuous transition. In this article, we show that a proper treatment of the flow equations around the obstacle can regularize wave emission, even in the linear wave approximation, thereby ensu...

## Vortex lattices in a stirred Bose-Einstein condensate

We stir with a focused laser beam a Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in a magnetic trap. We observe the formation of a single vortex for a stirring frequency exceeding a critical value. At larger rotation frequencies we produce states of the condensate for which up to eleven vortices are simultaneously present. We present measurements of the decay of a vortex array once the stirring laser beam is removed.

## Stationary states of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate: routes to vortex nucleation

Comment: 4 pages, 3 eps figures