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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…

We investigate the ground-state properties of spin-orbit-coupled pseudo-spin-1/2 dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a two-dimensional harmonic trap and an in-plane quadrupole field. The effects of spin-orbit coupling (SOC),…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-11 Xiaoqian Li , Qingbo Wang , Huan Wang , Chunxiao Shi , Malcolm Jardine , Linghua Wen

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

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

In spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, spin-changing collisions are a remarkable proxy to coherently realize macroscopic many-body quantum states. These processes have been, e.g., exploited to generate entanglement, to study dynamical quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-29 Josep Cabedo , Joan Claramunt , Alessio Celi

We observe spin squeezing in three-component Bose gases where all three hyperfine states are coupled by synthetic spin-orbit coupling. This phenomenon is a direct consequence of spin-orbit coupling, as can be seen clearly from an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 X. Y. Huang , F. X. Sun , W. Zhang , Q. Y. He , C. P. Sun

The striped phase exhibited by a spin-$1/2$ Bose-Einstein condensate with spin-orbit coupling is characterized by the spontaneous breaking of two continuous symmetries: gauge and translational symmetry. This is a peculiar feature of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-03 Giovanni I. Martone , Yun Li , Sandro Stringari

An experimental proposal for realizing spin-orbit (SO) coupling of pseudospin-1 in the ground manifold $^1\Sigma(\upsilon=0)$ of (bosonic) bialkali polar molecules is presented. The three spin components are composed of the ground…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-16 Y. Deng , L. You , S. Yi

We investigate controlled phase separation of a binary Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the proximity of mixed-spin-channel Feshbach resonance in the |F = 1, mF = +1> and |F = 2,mF = -1> states of 87Rb at a magnetic field of 9.10 G. Phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Satoshi Tojo , Yoshihisa Taguchi , Yuta Masuyama , Taro Hayashi , Hiroki Saito , Takuya Hirano

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

Spin-orbit coupling related new physics and quantum magnetism are two branches of great interest both in condensed matter physics and in cold atomic physics. With the introduction of a Rashba-like SOC into a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-13 Zhongbo Yan , Shaolong Wan

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

Since the first experimental realization of Bose-Einstein condensates in a spin-orbit-coupled Zeeman lattice, a wide range of applications have been found in these systems. Here, we systematically study the ground-state phase diagram of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-01 Huaxin He , Fengtao Pang , Hao Lyu , Yongping Zhang

We introduce a discrete model for binary spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) trapped in a deep one-dimensional optical lattice. Two different types of the couplings are considered, with spatial derivatives acting inside…

We report the observation of tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC) for ultracold $^{87}$Rb atoms in hyperfine spin-1 states. Different from most earlier experiments where atomic SOC of pseudo-spin-1/2 are synthesized with Raman coupling lasers,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-05 Xinyu Luo , Lingna Wu , Jiyao Chen , Qing Guan , Kuiyi Gao , Zhi-Fang Xu , L. You , Ruquan Wang

We consider a binary Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with nonlinear repulsive interactions and linear spin-orbit (SO) and Zeeman-splitting couplings. In the presence of the trapping harmonic-oscillator (HO) potential, we report the existence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 D. A. Zezyulin , R. Driben , V. V. Konotop , B. A. Malomed

According to the "no-node" theorem, many-body ground state wavefunctions of conventional Bose-Einstein condensations (BEC) are positive-definite, thus time-reversal symmetry cannot be spontaneously broken. We find that multi-component…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-08-10 Congjun Wu , Ian Mondragon-Shem , Xiang-Fa Zhou

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

We consider the topological defects and spin structures of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and dipole-dipole interaction (DDI) in a rotating harmonic plus quartic trap. The combined effects of SOC, DDI…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-27 Ning Su , Qingbo Wang , Jinguo Hu , Xianghua Su , Linghua Wen

We consider the spin-orbit coupled Bose gas with repulsive mean-field interparticle interactions. We analyze the phase diagram of the system varying the temperature $T>0$, the chemical potentials, as well as interparticle and spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-02-05 Pawel Jakubczyk , Marek Napiórkowski