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We briefly review the recent progress of theories and experiments on spin-orbital-angular-momentum (SOAM)-coupled quantum gases. The coupling between the intrinsic degree of freedom of particles and their external orbital motions widely…
Presented is an unitary operator splitting method for handling the spin-density interaction in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. The zero temperature behavior of a spinor BEC is given by mean field theory, where the Hamiltonian includes a…
We derive from first principles the experimentally observed effective dynamics of a spinor Bose gas initially prepared as a Bose-Einstein condensate and then left free to expand ballistically. In spinor condensates, which represent one of…