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The fragmentation of spin-orbit coupled spin-1 Bose gas with a weak interaction in external harmonic trap is explored by both exact diagonalization and mean-field theory. This fragmentation tendency, which originates from the total angular…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 Shu-Wei Song , Yi-Cai Zhang , Hong Zhao , Xuan Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

The recent realization of synthetic spin-orbit coupling represents an outstanding achievement in the physics of ultracold quantum gases. In this review we explore the properties of a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate with equal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-05 Yun Li , Giovanni I. Martone , Sandro Stringari

A spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein-condensed cloud of atoms confined in an annular trapping potential shows a variety of phases that we investigate in the present study. Starting with the non-interacting problem, the homogeneous phase that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-02-17 E. Ö. Karabulut , F. Malet , A. L. Fetter , G. M. Kavoulakis , S. M. Reimann

We present a variational study of the spin-1 Bose gases in a harmonic trap with three-dimensional spin-orbit coupling of Weyl type. For weak spin-orbit coupling, we treat the single-particle ground states as the form of perturbational…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-06 Guanjun Chen , Li Chen , Yunbo Zhang

We observe spin squeezing in three-component Bose gases where all three hyperfine states are coupled by synthetic spin-orbit coupling. This phenomenon is a direct consequence of spin-orbit coupling, as can be seen clearly from an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 X. Y. Huang , F. X. Sun , W. Zhang , Q. Y. He , C. P. Sun

We investigate the ground-state properties of spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in spin-dependent optical lattices. The competition between the spin-orbit coupling strength and the depth of the optical lattice leads to a rich…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-11 Wei Han , Suying Zhang , Wu-Ming Liu

We investigate the ground state of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in square optical lattices and demonstrate the existence of rich phases with different lattice structures, which is closely related…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-20 Ben Li , Shu Chen

We analytically and numerically investigate the ground state of the spin-orbit coupled spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates in an external parabolic potential. When the spin-orbit coupling strength $\kappa$ is comparable with that of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Shu-Wei Song , Yi-Cai Zhang , Qing Sun , Hanquan Wang , Lin Wen , A. C. Ji , W. M. Liu

We investigate the ground-state phases and spin-scissors dynamics of binary Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a twisted two-dimensional harmonic trap. The ground state hosts three distinct phases-phase-separated, polarized, and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-16 Huaxin He , Fengtao Pang , Xianchao Zhang , Yongping Zhang , Chunlei Qu

The Bose-Einstein condensates of alkali atomic gases are spinor fields with local ``spin-gauge" symmetry. This symmetry is manifested by a superfluid velocity ${\bf u}_{s}$ (or gauge field) generated by the Berry phase of the spin field. In…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Tin-Lun Ho , V. B. Shenoy

The ground-state phases of a spin-orbit (SO) coupled atomic spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) are studied. Interesting density patterns spontaneously formed are widespread due to the competition between SO coupling and spin-dependent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-05-04 Z. F. Xu , R. Lü , L. You

We theoretically study an interacting few-body system of Rashba spin-orbit coupled two-component Bose gases confined in a harmonic trapping potential. We solve the interacting Hamiltonian at large Rashba coupling strengths using Exact…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-01 B. Ramachandhran , Hui Hu , Han Pu

An ultra-cold Bose gas of two-level atoms can be thought of as a spin-1/2 Bose gas. It supports spin-wave collective modes due to the exchange mean field. Such collective spin oscillations have been observed in recent experiments at JILA…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Nikuni , J. E. Williams , C. W. Clark

In the past few decades, the search for supersolid-like phases has attracted great attention in condensed matter and ultracold atom communities. Here we experimentally demonstrate a route for realizing a superfluid stripe-phase in a…

Bose-Einstein condensates of dilute atomic gases, characterized by a macroscopic population of the quantum mechanical ground state, are a new, weakly interacting quantum fluid. In most experiments condensates in a single weak field seeking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 J. Stenger , S. Inouye , D. M. Stamper-Kurn , H. -J. Miesner , A. P. Chikkatur , W. Ketterle

Spin-wave excitation plays important roles in the investigation of the magnetic phases. In this paper, we study the spin-wave excitation spectra of two-component Bose gases with spin-orbit coupling on a deep square optical lattice using…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 R. -Y. Li , Liang He , Q. Sun , A. -C. Ji , G. -S. Tian

We study the interplay between large-spin, spin-orbit coupling, and superfluidity for bosons in a two dimensional optical lattice, focusing on the spin-1 spin-orbit coupled system recently realized at the Joint Quantum Institute [Campbell…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-02-10 J. H. Pixley , Stefan S. Natu , I. B. Spielman , S. Das Sarma

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of tunable spin-orbit-coupled spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates confined within a harmonic trap, focusing on rapid transport, spin manipulation, and splitting dynamics. Using shortcuts to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-06-07 Yaning Xu , Yuanyuan Chen , Xi Chen

We study a two-component Bose gas with a symmetric spin-orbit coupling, and find that two atoms can form a bound state with any intra- or inter-species scattering length. Consequently, in the dilute limit, the Bardeen-Cooper-Shrieffer (BCS)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-10-02 Dekun Luo , Lan Yin

We consider the quasi-2D two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling in a rotating trap. An external Zeeman term favoring spin polarization along the radial direction is also considered, which has the same…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-27 Xiang-Fa Zhou , Jing Zhou , Congjun Wu