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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

We theoretically study dilute superfluidity of spin-1 bosons with antiferromagnetic interactions and synthetic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a one-dimensional lattice. Employing a combination of density matrix renormalization group and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-03-11 Siddhartha Saha , E. J. König , Junhyun Lee , J. H. Pixley

This study explores the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with helicoidal spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Rabi coupling, confined under a two-dimensional harmonic potential. The relationship between helicoidal SOC, non-linear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-27 Sai Satyaprakash Biswal , S. Saravana Veni

Recently spin-orbit (SO) coupled superfluids in free space or harmonic traps have been extensively studied, motivated by the recent experimental realization of SO coupling for Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). However, the rich physics of SO…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-21 Yongping Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

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

Spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (SOBECs) exhibit two new phases of matter, now known as the stripe and plane-wave phases. When two interacting spin components of a SOBEC spatially overlap, density modulations with periodicity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-12 Andika Putra , F. Salces-Cárcoba , Yuchen Yue , Seiji Sugawa , I. B. Spielman

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

We investigate the ground states and rich dynamics of vortices in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) subject to position-dependent detuning. Such a detuning plays the role of an effective rotational frequency, causing the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-16 Juan Wang , Zhenze Fan , Yan Li

We study matter-wave bright solitons in spin-orbit (SO) coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with attractive interatomic interactions. We use a multiscale expansion method to identify solution families for chemical potentials in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-09 V. Achilleos , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky

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

We study a spin-orbit (SO) coupled hyperfine spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a quasi-one-dimensional trap. For a SO-coupled BEC in a one-dimensional box, we show that in the absence of the Rabi term, any non-zero value of SO…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-06 Sandeep Gautam , S. K. Adhikari

We present a simple mechanism to produce vortices at any desired spatial locations in harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with multicomponent spin states coupled to external transverse and axial magnetic fields. The…

Spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) provide a powerful tool to investigate interesting gauge-field related phenomena. We study the ground state properties of such a system and show that it can be mapped to the well-known…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-18 Chris Hamner , Chunlei Qu , Yongping Zhang , JiaJia Chang , Ming Gong , Chuanwei Zhang , Peter Engels

We demonstrate stable and metastable vortex-bright solitons in a three-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled three-component hyperfine spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) using numerical solution and variational approximation of a mean-field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-08-20 Sandeep Gautam , S. K. Adhikari

An effective spin-orbit coupling can be generated in cold atom system by engineering atom-light interactions. In this letter we study spin-1/2 and spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and find that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-10-27 Chunji Wang , Chao Gao , Chao-Ming Jian , Hui Zhai

We observe interlaced square vortex lattices in rotating two-component dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). After preparing a hexagonal vortex lattice in a single-component BEC in an internal state $|1>$ of $^{87}$Rb atoms, we…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Schweikhard , I. Coddington , P. Engels , S. Tung , E. A. Cornell

We investigate the vortex lattice configuration in a rotating spin orbit-coupled spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a quasi-two-dimensional harmonic trap. By considering the interplay between rotation frequency, spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-10-10 Paramjeet Banger

We study modulation instability (MI) of flat states in two-component spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in the framework of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations for two components of the pseudospinor wave function. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-14 Ishfaq Ahmad Bhat , T. Mithun , B. A. Malomed , K. Porsezian

An overview on the physics of spinor and dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) is given. Mean-field ground states, Bogoliubov spectra, and many-body ground and excited states of spinor BECs are discussed. Properties of spin-polarized…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-08-17 Yuki Kawaguchi , Masahito Ueda

The quantum emulation of spin-momentum coupling (SMC), a crucial ingredient for the emergence of topological phases, is currently drawing considerable interest. In previous quantum gas experiments, typically two atomic hyperfine states were…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-01 M. A. Khamehchi , Chunlei Qu , M. E. Mossman , Chuanwei Zhang , P. Engels