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Vortices in a one-component dilute atomic ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) usually arise as a response to externally driven rotation. Apart from a few special situations, these vortices are singly quantized with unit circulation.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-24 Alexander L. Fetter

A simple analytical way of creating superpositions of Bessel-Gaussian light beams with knotted nodal lines is proposed. It is based on the equivalence between the paraxial wave equation and the two-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation for a…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-20 Tomasz Radozycki

Dynamics of simplest vortex knots, unknots, and links of torus type inside an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in anisotropic harmonic trap at zero temperature has been numerically simulated using three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-04 Victor P. Ruban

A protocol for the creation of time-stationary squeezed states in a spin-1 Bose condensate is proposed. The method consists of a pair of controlled quenches of an external magnetic field, which allows tuning of the system Hamiltonian in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-13 Lin Xin , M. S. Chapman , T. A. B. Kennedy

We experimentally and theoretically explore the creation and time evolution of vortex lines in the polar magnetic phase of a trapped spin-1 $^{87}$Rb Bose-Einstein condensate. A process of phase-imprinting a nonsingular vortex, its decay…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-15 Y. Xiao , M. O. Borgh , L. S. Weiss , A. Blinova , J. Ruostekoski , D. S. Hall

Using a focused laser beam we stir a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a magnetic trap. When the stirring frequency lies near the transverse quadrupolar mode resonance we observe the nucleation of vortices. When several vortices are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Chevy , K. Madison , V. Bretin , J. Dalibard

We theoretically explore atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subject to position-dependent spin-orbit coupling (SOC). This SOC can be produced by cyclically laser coupling four internal atomic ground (or metastable) states in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-06 S. -W. Su , S. -C. Gou , I. -K. Liu , I. B. Spielman , L. Santos , A. Acus , A. Mekys , J. Ruseckas , G. Juzeliūnas

The polar phase of $^3$He, which is topological spin-triplet superfluid with the Dirac nodal line in the spectrum of Bogolubov quasiparticles, has been recently stabilized in a nanoconfined geometry. We pump magnetic excitations (magnons)…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-18 S. Autti , V. V. Dmitriev , J. T. Mäkinen , J. Rysti , A. A. Soldatov , G. E. Volovik , A. N. Yudin , V. B. Eltsov

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 study, we investigate the dynamics of tunable spin-orbit-coupled spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates confined within a harmonic trap, focusing on rapid transport, spin manipulation, and splitting dynamics. Using shortcuts to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-06-07 Yaning Xu , Yuanyuan Chen , Xi Chen

Knots and links are fundamental topological objects play a key role in both classical and quantum fluids. In this research, we propose a novel scheme to generate torus vortex knots and links through the reconnections of vortex rings…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-04 Wen-Kai Bai , Tao Yang , Wu-Ming Liu

We study two-dimensional quantum turbulence in miscible binary Bose-Einstein condensates in either a harmonic trap or a steep-wall trap through the numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equations. The turbulence is generated through…

We use stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensation. We show that cooling into a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can create solitons with density given by the cooling rate and by the critical exponents…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-29 Bogdan Damski , Wojciech H. Zurek

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 investigate the spontaneous generation of crystallized topological defects via the combining effects of fast rotation and rapid thermal quench on the spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates. By solving the stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-25 S. -W. Su , C. -H. Hsueh , I. -K. Liu , T. -L. Horng , Y. -C. Tsai , S. -C. Gou , W. M. Liu

We investigate fast transport and spin manipulation of tunable spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in a moving harmonic trap. Motivated by the concept of "shortcuts to adiabaticity", we design inversely the time-dependent trap…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Xi Chen , Ruan-Lei Jiang , Jing Li , Yue Ban. , E. Ya. Sherman

We observed a new mechanism for vortex nucleation in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subject to synthetic magnetic fields. We made use of a strong synthetic magnetic field initially localized between a pair of merging BECs to rapidly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-20 R. M. Price , D. Trypogeorgos , D. L. Campbell , A. Putra , A. Valdés-Curiel , I. B. Spielman

We report the observation of spin domain walls bounded by half-quantum vortices (HQVs) in a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate with antiferromagnetic interactions. A spinor condensate is initially prepared in the easy-plane polar phase, and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-03-13 Seji Kang , Sang Won Seo , Hiromitsu Takeuchi , Yong-il Shin

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…

Knots, characterized by topological invariants called the Hopf number $H$, arise from the intertwining of strings and exhibit diverse configurations. The knot structures have recently been observed in condensed matters, as examplified by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Shoya Kasai , Shun Okumura , Yukitoshi Motome