Solitary Vortex Evolution in Two-Dimensional Harmonically Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates

We investigate solitary vortex evolution in two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation model. Through the variational method, together with the novel Gaussian ansatz incorporating asymmetric perturbation effects, we arrive at the analytical solitary vortex solution with two typical forms: a symmetric quasi-stable solution under certain parametric settings and a diverging propagation case arising from an initial asymmetric perturbation. The derived pictorial evolutionary patterns of the solitary vortices are compared with those from a pure numerical analysis, and by identifying the key qualitative features, we show the applicability of the theoretical treatment presented here.