Skyrmions in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

H. T. C. Stoof

Skyrmions in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1

Authors: H. T. C. Stoof

Abstract

We show that spinor Bose-Einstein condensates not only have line-like vortex excitations, but in general also allow for point-like topological excitations, i.e., skyrmions. We discuss the static and dynamic properties of these skyrmions for spin-1/2 and ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose gases.

Keywords

spinor bose-einstein condensates bose-einstein condensation skyrmion theory

Cite

@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0002375,
  title  = {Skyrmions in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates},
  author = {H. T. C. Stoof},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0002375},
  year   = {2007}
}