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Using a focused laser beam we stir a Bose-Einstein condensate of 87Rb confined in a magnetic trap and observe the formation of a vortex for a stirring frequency exceeding a critical value. At larger rotation frequencies we produce states of…

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We study conditions under which vortices in a highly oblate harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can be stabilized due to pinning by a blue-detuned Gaussian laser beam, with particular emphasis on the potentially…

We propose the use of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) to offer a fast high fidelity method of performing SU(2) rotations on spinor Bose Einstein condensates (BEC). Past demonstrations of BEC optical control suffer from…

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The scattering length in a BEC confined in an amplitude - modulated optical lattice can be manipulated by the modulation strength. Two standing laser waves of main and sideband frequencies of an optical lattice induce a Raman transition;…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. Genkin

In a numerical experiment based on Gross-Pitaevskii formalism, we demonstrate unique topological quantum coherence in optically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Exploring the fact that vortices in rotating BEC can be pinned by a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-06 R. Geurts , M. V. Milošević , F. M. Peeters

We consider Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) subject to the action of spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) periodically modulated in the radial direction. In contrast to the commonly known principle that periodic potentials do not create bound states,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-15 Chunyan Li , Vladimir V. Konotop , Boris A. Malomed , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We study the spatiotemporal Bloch states of a high-frequency driven two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in an optical lattice. By adopting the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) and applying an exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Yawen Wei , Chao Kong , Wenhua Hai

We investigate vortex states in Bose-Einstein condensates under the combined action of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), gradient magnetic field, and harmonic-oscillator trapping potential. The linear version of the system is solved exactly.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-02-06 Huan-Bo Luo , Lu Li , Boris A. Malomed , Yongyao Li , Bin Liu

We theoretically propose and numerically realize spin echo in a spinor Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC). We investigate the influence on the spin echo of phase separation of the condensate. The equation of motion of the spin density exhibits…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Masashi Yasunaga , Makoto Tsubota

Topological phase imprinting is a well-established technique for deterministic vortex creation in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates of alkali metal atoms. It was recently shown that counter-diabatic quantum control may accelerate vortex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-20 T. Ollikainen , S. Masuda , M. Möttönen , M. Nakahara

The low lying excitations of coreless vortex states in F = 1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are theoretically investigated using the Gross-Pitaevskii and Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. The spectra of the elementary excitations are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-09 M. Takahashi , V. Pietila , M. Mottonen , T. Mizushima , K. Machida

We demonstrate a novel dual-beam atom laser formed by outcoupling oppositely polarized components of an F=1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate whose Zeeman sublevel populations have been coherently evolved through spin dynamics. The condensate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Lundblad , R. J. Thompson , D. C. Aveline , L. Maleki

We propose an experimental scheme to create spin-orbit coupling in spin-3 Cr atoms using Raman processes. Employing linear Zeeman effect and optical Stark shift, two spin states within the ground electronic manifold are selected, which…

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We propose a spin-orbit-coupled Floquet spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which can be implemented by Floquet engineering of a quadratic Zeeman field. The Floquet spinor BEC has a Bessel-function-modulated Rabi frequency and a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-16 Yani Zhang , Yuanyuan Chen , Hao Lyu , Yongping Zhang

It is shown that, through a super-radiant Rayleigh scattering, a strong far off-resonant pump laser applied to a Bose-Einstein condensates(BEC) can induce a non-demolition coupling of the many-mode quantized vacuum field to the BEC. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Sun

Achieving full control of a Bose-Einstein condensate can have valuable applications in metrology, quantum information processing, and quantum condensed matter physics. We propose protocols to simultaneously control the internal (related to…

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We propose and analyze a scheme to create dark solitons and vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates. This is achieved starting from a condensate in the internal state $|a>$ and transferring the atoms to the internal state $|b>$ via a Raman…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Dum , J. I. Cirac , M. Lewenstein , P. Zoller

The global spin polarization of hadrons in heavy ion collisions has been measured in STAR (the Solenoidal Tracker At Relativistic heavy ion collider) experiments, which opens up a new window in the study of the hottest, least viscous and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-11 Jian Deng , Qun Wang , Hong Zhang

The present contribution explores phase transitions that occur in the ground state (GS) of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) under the action of gradient magnetic fields. By solving the corresponding…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-21 Xin-Feng Zhang , Huan-Bo Luo , Josep Batle , Bin Liu , Yongyao Li

The superfluid - Mott insulator transition in a BEC confined in an amplitude - modulated optical lattice can be manipulated by the modulation strength. Two standing laser waves of main and sideband frequencies of an optical lattice induce a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. Genkin