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We investigate dynamic creation of fractionalized half-quantum vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates of sodium atoms. Our simulations show that both individual half-quantum vortices and vortex lattices can be created in rotating optical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 An-Chun Ji , W. M. Liu , Jun Liang Song , Fei Zhou

We study Bose-Einstein condensate of atomic Boson gases trapped in a composite potential of a harmonic potential and an optical lattice potential. We found a series of collective excitations that induces localized vortex oscillations with a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Tomoya Isoshima

Vortices are pervasive in nature, representing the breakdown of laminar fluid flow and hence playing a key role in turbulence. The fluid rotation associated with a vortex can be parameterized by the circulation $\Gamma=\oint {\rm d}{\bf…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 N. G. Parker , B. Jackson , A. M. Martin , C. S. Adams

In Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC), spin-orbit coupling (SOC) produces supersolidity. It is a peculiar state of matter, which, in addition to the superfluid behaviour shows periodic density modulation typical for crystals. Here, we report…

We observe solitonic vortices in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate after free expansion. Clear signatures of the nature of such defects are the twisted planar density depletion around the vortex line, observed in absorption images, and the…

We investigate several mechanisms of vortex creation during splitting of a spinor BEC in a magnetic trap controlled by a pair of current carrying wires and bias magnetic fields. Our study is motivated by a recent MIT experiment on splitting…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-10-03 A. P. Itin , T. Morishita , M. Satoh , O. I. Tolstikhin , S. Watanabe

We consider excitations of a spin-1 Bose-Einstein-condensate (BEC) in the vicinity of different mean-field configurations and derive mappings to emergent relativistic quantum field theories minimally coupled to curved acoustic spacetimes.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-18 Christian F. Schmidt , Simon Brunner , Stefan Floerchinger

In this work we use standard Hamiltonian-system techniques in order to study the dynamics of three vortices with alternating charges in a confined Bose-Einstein condensate. In addition to being motivated by recent experiments, this system…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vassilis Koukouloyannis , George Voyatzis , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We study the relaxation dynamics of an isolated zero temperature quasi-two-dimensional superfluid Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) that is imprinted with a spatially random distribution of quantum vortices. Following a period of vortex…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-22 Tapio Simula , Matthew J. Davis , Kristian Helmerson

We consider the splitting mechanism of a multiply charged vortex into singly charged vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a harmonic potential at zero temperature. The Bogoliubov equations support unstable modes with complex…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuki Kawaguchi , Tetsuo Ohmi

The study investigates the formation, stability and dynamic advancement of two-dimensional vortex quantum droplets within binary Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), shaped by the interplay of photonic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-04 Suri Deekshita , S. Sanjay , S. Saravana Veni , Conrad B. Tabi , Timoleon C. Kofane

We analyze theoretically Josephson oscillations in a mixture of two Zeeman states of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential. We find that in the strongly polarized case, the less populated component exhibits a complex…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-01-04 B. Julia-Diaz , M. Guilleumas , M. Lewenstein , A. Polls , A. Sanpera

We have computed phase diagrams for rotating spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates with long-range magnetic dipole-dipole interactions. Spin textures including vortex sheets, staggered half-quantum- and skyrmion vortex lattices and higher order…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 T. P. Simula , J. A. M. Huhtamäki , M. Takahashi , T. Mizushima , K. Machida

We review the topic of quantized vortices in multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates of dilute atomic gases, with an emphasis on that in two-component condensates. First, we review the fundamental structure, stability and dynamics of a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota , Masahito Ueda

Vortex is a topological defect with a quantized winding number of the phase in superfluids and superconductors. Here, we investigate the crystallized (triangular, square, honeycomb) and amorphous vortices in rotating atomic-molecular…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-03 Chao-Fei Liu , Heng Fan , Shih-Chuan Gou , Wu-Ming Liu

The phase separation and vortex states in two-component Bose-Einstein condensate consisting of $|F=1,m_f=-1>$ and $|2,1>$ internal spin states of $^{87}Rb$ atoms are considered in the framework of Thomas-Fermi approximation. It is shown…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. T. Chui , V. N. Ryzhov , E. E. Tareyeva

The processes of merging and splitting dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates are studied in the nonadiabatic, high-density regime. Rich dynamics are found. Depending on the experimental parameters, uniform soliton trains containing more than…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. J. Chang , P. Engels , M. A. Hoefer

We investigate the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in a tilted one-dimensional periodic lattice within the mean-field (Gross-Pitaevskii) description. Unlike in the linear case the Bloch oscillations decay because of nonlinear…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Witthaut , M. Werder , S. Mossmann , H. J. Korsch

We analyze the formation of transient patterns and spin-spin correlations in quasi-two-dimensional spin-1 homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates subjected to parametric driving of $s$-wave scattering lengths. The dynamics for an initial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-22 Sandra M Jose , Komal Sah , Rejish Nath

We experimentally generate sine-Gordon-like solitons in a spin-1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) utilizing a robust and reproducible local phase-imprinting scheme. We find that the soliton velocity can be tuned by the effective…