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Mermin-Ho vortex in ferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The Mermin-Ho and Anderson-Toulouse coreless non-singular vortices are demonstrated to be thermodynamically stable in ferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensates with the hyperfine state F=1. The phase diagram is established in a plane of the rotation drive vs the total magnetization by comparing the energies for other competing non-axis-symmetric or singular vortices. Their stability is also checked by evaluating collective modes.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0203242,
  title  = {Mermin-Ho vortex in ferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensates},
  author = {T. Mizushima and K. Machida and T. Kita},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0203242},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures

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