Since the first experimental achievement of Bose Einstein condensates (BEC) in 1995 and the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001, the properties of these gaseous quantum fluids have been the focus of international interest in condensed matter physics. This monograph is dedicated to the mathematical modeling of some specific experiments which display vortices and to a rigorous analysis of features emerging experimentally.

In contrast to a classical fluid, a quantum fluid such as a Bose Einstein condensate can rotate only through the nucleation of quantized vortices...