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We theoretically investigate quantum tunnelling escape of a spin-orbit (SO) coupled Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) from a trapping well. The condensate is initially prepared in a quasi-one-dimensional harmonic trap. Depending on the system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-01 Jieli Qin

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

Atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) offer brand new opportunities to revolutionize quantum gases and probe the variation of fundamental constants with unprecedented sensitivity. The recent realization of spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-24 Chao-Fei Liu , Gediminas Juzeliunas , Wu-Ming Liu

Cold ensembles of bosons are a useful platform for studying many-body quantum states present in quantum technologies, and simulations of these systems are convenient for streamlining design of such technologies. This paper provides an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-04 Dylan R. Pollard

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

It was found that spatially confined spin-orbit (SO) coupling, which can be induced by illuminating Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with a Gaussian laser beam, can help trap a spinor Bose gas in multi-dimensional space. Previous works on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-19 Xiong-wei Chen , Zhi-gui Deng , Xiao-xi Xu , Shu-lan Li , Zhi-wei Fan , Zhao-pin Chen , Bin Liu , Yong-yao Li

In condensed-matter physics spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a fundamental physical interaction, which describes how the electrons' spin couples to their orbital motion. It is the source of a vast variety of fascinating phenomena in solids such…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-05-25 Khalil Zakeri , Dominik Rau , Jasmin Jandke , Fang Yang , Wulf Wulfhekel , Christophe Berthod

We study two-dimensional (2D) matter-wave solitons in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) under the action of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and opposite signs of the self- and cross-interactions. Stable 2D two-component solitons of the…

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 consider the phase transition dynamics of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate subject to Raman-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC). By tuning the coupling strength the condensate is taken through a second order phase transition into an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-05-22 Sheng Liu , Yongsheng Zhang

We consider the ground-state properties of Rashba spin-orbit-coupled pseudo-spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a rotating two-dimensional (2D) toroidal trap. In the absence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the increasing rotation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-11 Huan Wang , Linghua Wen , Hui Yang , Chunxiao Shi , Jinghong Li

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 address effects of spin-orbit coupling (SOC), phenomenologically added to a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate composed of particles moving by Levy flights, in one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) settings. The corresponding system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-06 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed

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

We investigate the dynamics of rotating pseudo-spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a quasicrystalline optical lattice (QOL). For given parameters, the system evolves from an initial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-06 Qingbo Wang , Jinguo Hu , Xianghua Su , Linghua Wen

We consider Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) subject to the action of spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) periodically modulated in the radial direction. In contrast to the commonly known principle that periodic potentials do not create bound states,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-15 Chunyan Li , Vladimir V. Konotop , Boris A. Malomed , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We theoretically show that the spin Hall effect arises in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of neutral atoms interacting via the magnetic dipole-dipole interactions (MDDIs). Since the MDDI couples the total spin angular momentum and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-25 Toshiyuki Oshima , Yuki Kawaguchi

We study trapped 2D atomic Bose-Einstein condensates with spin-independent interactions in the presence of an isotropic spin-orbit coupling, showing that a rich physics results from the non-trivial interplay between spin-orbit coupling,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-30 Subhasis Sinha , Rejish Nath , Luis Santos

Entanglement is at the core of quantum information processing and may prove essential for quantum speed-up. Inspired by both theoretical and experimental studies of spin-momentum coupling in systems of ultra-cold atoms, we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 Sumit Suresh Kale , Yijue Ding , Yong P. Chen , Bretislav Friedrich , Sabre Kais

The influence of acceleration and rotation on spintronic applications is theoretically investigated. In our formulation, considering a Dirac particle in a non-inertial frame, different spin related aspects are studied. The spin current…

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