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The recent experimental realization of spin-orbit coupling for ultracold atomic gases opens a new avenue for engineering solitons with internal spatial structures through tuning atomic band dispersions. However, the types of the resulting…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-12 Li-Chen Zhao , Xi-Wang Luo , Chuanwei Zhang

While different ways to realize spin-orbit coupling in Bose-Einstein condensates exist, not all are currently experimentally implementable. Here we present a detailed study of gap solitons in a Bose- Einstein condensate with experimentally…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 Yongping Zhang , Yong Xu , Thomas Busch

We study the vortex-bright solitons in a quasi-two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled (SO-coupled) hyperfine spin-1 three-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) using variational method and numerical solution of a mean-field model. The ground…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-11 Sandeep Gautam , S. K. Adhikari

It was found that spatially confined spin-orbit (SO) coupling, which can be induced by illuminating Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with a Gaussian laser beam, can help trap a spinor Bose gas in multi-dimensional space. Previous works on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-19 Xiong-wei Chen , Zhi-gui Deng , Xiao-xi Xu , Shu-lan Li , Zhi-wei Fan , Zhao-pin Chen , Bin Liu , Yong-yao Li

Atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) offer brand new opportunities to revolutionize quantum gases and probe the variation of fundamental constants with unprecedented sensitivity. The recent realization of spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-24 Chao-Fei Liu , Gediminas Juzeliunas , Wu-Ming Liu

It was recently found that the spin-orbit (SO) coupling can help to create stable matter-wave solitons in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in the two-dimensional (2D) free space. Being induced by external laser illumination, the effective…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-03-15 Yongyao Li , Xiliang Zhang , Rongxuan Zhong , Zhihuan Luo , Bin Liu , Chunqing Huang , Wei Pang , Boris A. Malomed

We present families of beating dark-dark solitons in spin-orbit (SO) coupled Bose-Einstein condensates. These families consist of solitons residing simultaneously in the two bands of the energy spectrum. The soliton components are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 V. Achilleos , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We study the single-particle dispersion of a spin-orbit coupled (SOC) Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) under the periodical modulation of the Raman coupling. This modulation introduces a further coupling of the SOC dressed eigenlevels, thus…

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

In the present work, we explore the potential of spin-orbit (SO) coupled Bose-Einstein condensates to support multi-component solitonic states in the form of dark-bright (DB) solitons. In the case where Raman linear coupling between…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-10-11 J. D'Ambroise , D. J. Franzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We present the experimental discovery of compound structures comprising solitons and vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We examine both their creation via soliton-vortex collisions and their subsequent development, which is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Naomi S. Ginsberg , Joachim Brand , Lene Vestergaard Hau

We consider the ground-state properties of Rashba spin-orbit-coupled pseudo-spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a rotating two-dimensional (2D) toroidal trap. In the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the increasing rotation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-11 Huan Wang , Linghua Wen , Hui Yang , Chunxiao Shi , Jinghong Li

Interference of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, observed in free expansion experiments, is a basic characteristic of their quantum nature. The ability to produce synthetic spin-orbit coupling in Bose-Einstein condensates has recently…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-09-23 Sh. Mardonov , M. Palmero , M. Modugno , E. Ya. Sherman , J. G. Muga

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) plays a crucial role in many branches of physics. In this context, the recent experimental realization of the coupling between spin and linear momentum of ultracold atoms opens a completely new avenue for exploring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-24 Kuei Sun , Chunlei Qu , Chuanwei Zhang

We study the dynamics of binary Bose-Einstein condensates made of ultracold and dilute alkali-metal atoms in a quasi-one-dimensional setting. Numerically solving the two coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations which accurately describe the…

We study bright solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate with a spin-orbit coupling that has been realized experimentally. Both stationary bright solitons and moving bright solitons are found. The stationary bright solitons are the ground…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-25 Yong Xu , Yongping Zhang , Biao Wu

We realize the dynamical 1D spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) of a Bose-Einstein condensate confined within an optical cavity. The SOC emerges through spin-correlated momentum impulses delivered to the atoms via Raman transitions. These are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-23 Ronen M. Kroeze , Yudan Guo , Benjamin L. Lev

Using a (1+2)-dimensional boson-vortex duality between non-linear electrodynamics and a two-component compressible Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with spin-orbit (SO) coupling, we obtain generalised versions of the hydrodynamic continuity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-13 L. A. Toikka

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the interaction between the spin and momentum of a quantum particle, is crucial for many important condensed matter phenomena. The recent experimental realization of SOC in neutral bosonic cold atoms provides a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-24 Yongping Zhang , Li Mao , Chuanwei Zhang

We investigate the ground-state properties of spin-orbit-coupled pseudo-spin-1/2 dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a two-dimensional harmonic trap and an in-plane quadrupole field. The effects of spin-orbit coupling (SOC),…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-11 Xiaoqian Li , Qingbo Wang , Huan Wang , Chunxiao Shi , Malcolm Jardine , Linghua Wen