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Spontaneous creation of skyrmions in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate

Quantum Gases 2024-10-17 v1

Abstract

We investigate the stability of a vortex ring in a miscible two-component Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a harmonic potential, where the vortex cores in the two components are initially overlapped. Solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation numerically, we find that the overlapped vortex rings in the two components are dynamically unstable against separation and that they can form linked vortex rings, resulting in a three-dimensional skyrmion. The parameter range for spontaneous skyrmion generation is determined by the Bogoliubov analysis

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@article{arxiv.2410.12317,
  title  = {Spontaneous creation of skyrmions in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate},
  author = {Rabeea Kiran and Hiroki Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.12317},
  year   = {2024}
}

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8 pages, 5 figures, 3 movies