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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

Zitterbewegung, a force-free trembling motion first predicted for relativistic fermions like electrons, was an unexpected consequence of the Dirac equation's unification of quantum mechanics and special relativity. Though the oscillatory…

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 derive Ehrenfest like equations for the coupled Gross Pitaevskii equations (CGPE) which describe the dynamics of the binary Bose-Einstein condensate (BBEC) both in the free particle regime and in the regime where condensate is well…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-06 Sukla Pal , Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee

Single-particle dynamics of a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate has recently been investigated in experiments that explore the physics of Landau-Zener tunneling and of the Zitterbewegung. In this paper, we study the influence of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-20 Yongping Zhang , Zhiqian Gui , Yuanyuan Chen

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

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

Starting from coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) describing the dynamics of binary Bose Einstein Condensate (BEC), we have explored the dynamics of the width of initial wave-packets by following two different approaches. We have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 Sukla Pal , Jayanta K. Bhattacharjee

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 propose a method of atom-interferometry using a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with a time-varying magnetic field acting as a coherent beam-splitter. Our protocol creates long-lived superpositional counterflow states, which are of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 John L. Helm , Thomas P. Billam , Ana Rakonjac , Simon L. Cornish , Simon A. Gardiner

By calculating the density response function we identify the excitation spectrum of a Bose-Einstein condensate with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We find that the velocity of sound along the direction of spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-29 Giovanni I. Martone , Yun Li , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari

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 study vortex dynamics in trapped two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with a laser- induced spin-orbit coupling using the numerical analysis of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The spin-orbit coupling leads to three distinct ground…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-09 Kenichi Kasamatsu

We investigate the dynamics around an obstacle potential moving in the plane-wave state of a pseudospin-$1/2$ Bose-Einstein condensate with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We numerically investigate the dynamics of the system and find that it…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-10-11 Masaya Kato , Xiao-Fei Zhang , Hiroki Saito

The recent experimental realization of spin-orbit coupling for ultracold atomic gases provides a powerful platform for exploring many interesting quantum phenomena. In these studies, spin represents spin vector (spin-1/2 or spin-1) and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-15 Xi-Wang Luo , Kuei Sun , Chuanwei Zhang

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

A mixture of two species of pseudospin-1/2 Bose gases exhibits interesting interplay between spin and orbital degrees of freedom. Expectation values of various quantities of the collective spins of the two species play crucial roles in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-03-08 Rukuan Wu , Yu Shi

I use a time-dependent Lagrangian formalism and a variational trial function to study the dynamics of a two-component vortex in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). For a single-component BEC, various experiments have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-25 Alexander L. Fetter

It is shown that spin-orbit interaction leads to drastic changes in wave patterns generated by a flow of two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) past an obstacle. The combined Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction affects in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 Y. V. Kartashov , A. M. Kamchatnov

Disorder plays a crucial role in spin dynamics in solids and condensed matter systems. We demonstrate that for a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in a random potential two mechanisms of spin evolution, that can be characterized…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-17 S. Mardonov , M. Modugno , E. Ya. Sherman
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