Title: Condensates in double-well potential with synthetic gauge potentials and vortex seeding,
Abstract: We demonstrate an enhancement in the vortex generation when artificial gauge
potential is introduced to condensates confined in a double well potential.
This is due to the lower energy required to create a vortex in the low
condensate density region within the barrier. Furthermore, we study the
transport of vortices between the two wells, and show that the traverse time
for vortices is longer for the lower height of the well. We also show that the
critical value of synthetic magnetic field to inject vortices into the bulk of
the condensate is lower in the double-well potential compared to the harmonic
confining potential.