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Spin waves in a Bose Ferromagnet

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

It is shown that the ferromagnetic transition takes place always above Bose-Einstein condensation in ferromagnetically coupled spinor Bose gases. We describe the Bose ferromagnet within Ginzburg-Landau theory by a "two-fluid" model below Bose-Einstein condensation. Both the Bose condensate and the normal phase are spontaneously magnetized. As a main result we show that spin waves in the two fluids are coupled together so as to produce only one mixed spin-wave mode in the coexisting state. The long wavelength spectrum is quadratic in the wave vector k{\bf k}, consistent with usual ferromagnetism theory, and the spin-wave stiffness coefficient csc_s includes contributions from both the two phases, implying the "two-fluid" feature of the system. csc_s can show a sharp bend at the Bose-Einstein condensation temperature.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0405094,
  title  = {Spin waves in a Bose Ferromagnet},
  author = {Qiang Gu and Kai Bongs and Klaus Sengstock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0405094},
  year   = {2009}
}

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