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Spontaneous ferromagnetism in the spinor Bose gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling

Quantum Gases 2013-06-25 v2

Abstract

We show that in the two-component Bose gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling an arbitrarily small attractive interaction between bosons with opposite spin induces spontaneous ferromagnetism below a finite critical temperature TcT_c. In the ferromagnetic phase the single-particle spectrum exhibits a unique minimum in momentum space in the direction of the magnetization. For sufficiently small temperatures below TcT_c the bosons eventually condense into the unique state at the bottom of the spectrum, forming a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate.

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@article{arxiv.1304.5103,
  title  = {Spontaneous ferromagnetism in the spinor Bose gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling},
  author = {Kira Riedl and Casper Drukier and Peter Zalom and Peter Kopietz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5103},
  year   = {2013}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures