Vortex states of Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interactions

Abstract

In this paper, we mainly investigate complex-valued vortex states of trapped attractive Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), which can be described by an $ L^2- $critical constraint minimization problem. We prove that both the existence and nonexistence of vortex states may occur at the threshold $ a^*(m) $ depending on the value of $ V(0) $. When there is no vortex states at the threshold $ a^*(m) $, the limit behavior of vortex states as $ a \nearrow a^*(m) $ is also investigated if the trapping potential $ V(x) $ vanishes on the unit circle $ B(0,1) $ in $ {{\mathbb{R}}}^2 $.