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Ground states of spin-3 Bose-Einstein condensates for conserved magnetization

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

We calculate the ground states and ground state phase diagrams of Bose-Einstein condensates of spin-3 atoms under the assumption of conserved magnetization. We especially concentrate on the ground states of a chromium condensate. In chromium the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction enables magnetization changing collisions, but in a strong magnetic field these are suppressed. In the calculation of the phase diagrams we neglect the contribution from the dipole-dipole interaction, but discuss its effects at the end of the paper. We show that the ground state of a chromium condensate does not seem to depend on whether or not the dipole-dipole interaction is taken into attention.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0610071,
  title  = {Ground states of spin-3 Bose-Einstein condensates for conserved magnetization},
  author = {Harri Mäkelä and Kalle-Antti Suominen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0610071},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 4 figures; typos corrected, published version