English

Cyclic phase in F=2 spinor condensate: Long-range order, kinks, and roughening transition

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v2

Abstract

We study the effect of thermal fluctuations on homogeneous infinite Bose-Einstein condensate with spin F=2 in the cyclic state, when atoms occupy three hyperfine states with mF=0,±2m_{F}=0, \pm 2. We use both the approach of small-amplitude oscillations and mapping of our model on the sine-Gordon model. We show that thermal fluctuations lead to the existence of the rough phase in one- and two-dimensional systems, when presence of kinks is favorable. The structure and energy of a single kink are found. We also discuss the effect of thermal fluctuations on spin degrees of freedom in F=1 condensate.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0604505,
  title  = {Cyclic phase in F=2 spinor condensate: Long-range order, kinks, and roughening transition},
  author = {W. V. Pogosov and K. Machida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0604505},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure; final version, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A