Coreless vortex formation in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Coreless vortices were phase-imprinted in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. The three-component order parameter of F=1 sodium condensates held in a Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap was manipulated by adiabatically reducing the magnetic bias field along the trap axis to zero. This distributed the condensate population across its three spin states and created a spin texture. Each spin state acquired a different phase winding which caused the spin components to separate radially.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0212539,
title = {Coreless vortex formation in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate},
author = {A. E. Leanhardt and Y. Shin and D. Kielpinski and D. E. Pritchard and W. Ketterle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0212539},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 2 figures