Dynamics of a collapsing and exploding Bose-Einstein condensed vortex state

Using the time-dependent mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation we study the dynamics of small repulsive Bose-Einstein condensed vortex states of ⁸⁵Rb atoms in a cylindrical trap with low angular momentum ħL per atom (L<~6), when the atomic interaction is suddenly turned attractive by manipulating the external magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance. Consequently, the condensate collapses and ejects atoms via explosion and a remnant condensate with a smaller number of atoms emerges that survives for a long time. Details of this collapse and explosion are compared critically with a similar experiment performed with zero angular momentum (L=0) by Donley et al. [Nature (London) 412, 295 (2001)]. A suggestion for a future experiment with the vortex state is made.