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We study analytically and asymptotically as well as numerically ground states and dynamics of two-component spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) modeled by the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations (CGPEs). In fact, due to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Weizhu Bao , Yongyong Cai

Anderson localization is a single particle localization phenomena in disordered media that is accompanied by an absence of diffusion. Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) describes an interaction between a particle's spin and its momentum that…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-23 Y. Yue , C. A. R. Sá de Melo , I. B. Spielman

We proposed and demonstrated a new approach for realizing spin orbit coupling with ultracold atoms. We use orbital levels in a double well potential as pseudospin states. Two-photon Raman transitions between left and right wells induce…

Self-trapping is a hallmark phenomenon of nonlinear dynamics. It has significant applications in modern physics, including band structure engineering, phase transition dynamics, quantum metrology, and more. Dilute-gas Bose-Einstein…

Vortices are expected to exist in a supersolid but experimentally their detection can be difficult because the vortex cores are localized at positions where the local density is very low. We address here this problem by performing numerical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-15 Francesco Ancilotto , Manuel Barranco , Marti Pi , Luciano Reatto

A method to produce a spin-dependent rotating potential using near-resonant circularly polarized laser beams is proposed. It is shown that half-quantum vortices are nucleated in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate with an antiferromagnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-02 Hiroki Chiba , Hiroki Saito

Spin-orbit coupled ultra-cold atoms provide an intriguing new avenue for the study of rich spin dynamics in superfluids. In this Letter, we observe Zitterbewegung, the simultaneous velocity (thus position) and spin oscillations, of neutral…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-29 Chunlei Qu , Chris Hamner , Ming Gong , Chuanwei Zhang , Peter Engels

Static and dynamic properties of vortices in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate with Rashba spin-orbit coupling are investigated. The mass current around a vortex core in the plane-wave phase is found to be deformed by the spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-12 Masaya Kato , Xiao-Fei Zhang , Hiroki Saito

We present an analysis of stationary solutions for two-dimensional (2D) Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and Zeeman splitting. By introducing the generalized momentum operator, the linear version of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-09-07 Huan-Bo Luo , B. A. Malomed , Wu-Ming Liu , Lu Li

We study the formation of solitons in a uniform quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) spin-orbit (SO) coupled self-repulsive binary dipolar and nondipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) using the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation. For a weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-05 S. K. Adhikari

The coupled dynamics of the atom and photon fields in optical ring cavities with two counter-propagating modes give rise to both spin-orbit interactions as well as long-ranged interactions between atoms of a many-body system. At zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-19 Farokh Mivehvar , David L. Feder

We study the real-time dynamics of vortex lines in a large elongated Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of sodium atoms using a stroboscopic technique. Vortices are spontaneously produced via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism in a quench across the…

We investigate the dynamics of a spin-orbit (SO) coupled BECs in a time dependent harmonic trap and show the dynamical system to be completely integrable by constructing the Lax pair. We then employ gauge transformation approach to witness…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-28 P. S. Vinayagam , R. Radha , S. Bhuvaneswari , R. Ravisankar , P. Muruganandam

This paper investigates the dynamics of spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with rotation and spin-orbit coupling (SOC). In order to better simulate the dynamics, we present an efficient high-order compact splitting Fourier spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Xin Liu , Ziqing Xie , Yongjun Yuan , Yong Zhang , Xinyi Zhao

We consider the fate of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) with time-reversal symmetry and inversion symmetry in a spin-orbit coupled bilayer system. When these two symmetry operators commute, all the single particle bands are exactly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-31 Jia-Ming Cheng , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Zheng-Wei Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Ming Gong

We theoretically study homogeneously trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates where all three momentum components couple to a pseudo-spin-$1/2$ degree of freedom. Tuning the anisotropies of spin-orbit coupling and the spin-dependent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-04 Renyuan Liao , Oleksander Fialko , Joachim Brand , Ulrich Zulicke

The Bogoliubov model for weakly interacting Bose gas is extended to Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of spin-S atoms in a magnetic field. Equation for the vectorial order parameter valid at temperature $T\to 0$ is derived and its particular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-26 A. S. Peletminskii , S. V. Peletminskii , Yu. V. Slyusarenko

We show that the interplay between spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting in atomic systems can lead to the existence of bound states in the continuum (BICs) supported by trapping potentials. Such states have energies falling well within…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-21 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Lluis Torner

Spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates are a flexible experimental platform to engineer synthetic quantum many-body systems. In particular, they host the so-called stripe phase, an instance of a supersolid state of matter. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-24 C. S. Chisholm , S. Hirthe , V. B. Makhalov , R. Ramos , R. Vatré , J. Cabedo , A. Celi , L. Tarruell

Soon after its theoretical prediction, striped-density states in the presence of synthetic spin-orbit coupling were realized in Bose-Einstein condensates of ultracold neutral atoms [J.-R. Li et al., Nature \textbf{543}, 91 (2017)]. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-24 Haibo Qiu , Dengling Zhang , Antonio Muñoz Mateo