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We report direct measurements of spin transport in a trapped, partially condensed spinor Bose gas. Detailed analyses of spin flux in this out-of-equilibrium quantum gas are performed by monitoring the flow of atoms in different hyperfine…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 J. M. McGuirk

The realization of artificial gauge fields and spin-orbit coupling for ultra-cold quantum gases promises new insight into paradigm solid state systems. Here we experimentally probe the dispersion relation of a spin-orbit coupled…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 C. Hamner , Yongping Zhang , M. A. Khamehchi , Matthew J. Davis , P. Engels

Bose-Einstein condensation in the presence of a synthetic spin-momentum interaction is considered, focusing on the case where a Dirac or Rashba potential is generated via a tripod scheme. We found that the ground states can be either plane…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 S. -K. Yip

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of modulation instability (MI) in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). The analysis is performed for equal densities of pseudo-spin components. Different combination…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-22 S. Bhuvaneswari , K. Nithyanandan , P. Muruganandam , K. Porsezian

We study the motion of a vortex dipole in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined to an anisotropic trap. We focus on a system of ordinary differential equations describing the vortices' motion, which is in turn a reduced model of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-31 Roy H. Goodman , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Ricardo Carretero-Gonzalez

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

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

Boundaries strongly affect the behavior of quantized vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates, a phenomenon particularly evident in elongated cigar-shaped traps where vortices tend to orient along a short direction to minimize energy.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-03 R. N. Bisset , S. Serafini , E. Iseni , M. Barbiero , T. Bienaimé , G. Lamporesi , G. Ferrari , F. Dalfovo

We study the collective excitation spectrum of a Raman-induced spin-orbit-coupled spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a quasi-one-dimensional harmonic trap while varying either the Raman coupling or quadratic Zeeman term by using…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-25 Rajat , Paramjeet Banger , Sandeep Gautam

Using Bogoliubov theory we calculate the excitation spectrum of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensed gas with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in the stripe phase. The emergence of a double gapless band structure is pointed out…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-11 Yun Li , Giovanni I. Martone , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari

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

An optical speckle potential is used to investigate the static and dynamic properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of disorder. For strong disorder the condensate is localized in the deep wells of the potential. With…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Lye , L. Fallani , M. Modugno , D. Wiersma , C. Fort , M. Inguscio

We study the dynamics of a harmonically trapped quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate subjected to a moving disorder potential of finite extent. We show that, due to the inhomogeneity of the sample, only a percentage of the atoms…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-11 Ardavan Alamir , Pablo Capuzzi , Patrizia Vignolo

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 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

The phases of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with light-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) are studied within the mean-field approximation. The mixed BEC phase, in which the system condenses in a superposition of two plane wave states, is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Qin-Qin Lü , Daniel E. Sheehy

We consider two-component Bose-Einstein condensates subject to Weyl spin-orbit coupling. We obtain mean-field ground state phase diagram by variational method. In the regime where interspecies coupling is larger than intraspecies coupling,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-16 Ting Wu , Renyuan Liao

Ground-state phase diagram of two-component Bose gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is determined via a variational approach. A phase in which the fully polarized condensate occupies zero momentum is identified. This zero-momentum phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-24 Zeng-Qiang Yu

The dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential are analysed in terms of transitions between energy eigenstates. By solving the time-dependent and time-independent Gross-Pitaevskii equation in one dimension, we…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Sakellari , M. Leadbeater , N. J. Kylstra , C. S. Adams

We investigate the quantum dynamics of an experimentally realized spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in a double well potential. The spin-orbit coupling can significantly enhance the atomic inter-well tunneling. We find the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-03 Dan-Wei Zhang , Li-Bin Fu , Z. D. Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu