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We study the ground state phases of a rotating two-component, or binary Bose-Einstein condensate, wherein one component possesses a large magnetic dipole moment. A variety of non-trivial phases emerge in this system, including a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-22 Wilbur E. Shirley , Brandon M. Anderson , Charles W. Clark , Ryan M. Wilson

Recently, the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition was found to be mediated by half-quantum vortices (HQVs) in two-dimensional (2D) antiferromagnetic Bose gases [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 120406 (2006)]. We study the thermal activation of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-25 Ville Pietilä , Tapio P. Simula , Mikko Möttönen

We study topological excitations in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in an elongated double-well optical potential. This system hosts a new topological defect, the spin Josephson vortex (SJV), which forms due to the competition…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-08-06 T. W. A. Montgomery , W. Li , T. M. Fromhold

We have studied computationally the collision dynamics of spin-2 Bose--Einstein condensates initially confined in a triple-well trap. Depending on the intra- and inter-component relative phases of the initial state spinor wave function, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-08 Thomas Mawson , Gary Ruben , Tapio Simula

We theoretically study the vortex formation from the collision of the domain walls in phase-separated two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. The collision process mimics the tachyon condensation for the annihilation of D-brane and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-14 Hiromitsu Takeuchi , Kenichi Kasamatsu , Muneto Nitta , Makoto Tsubota

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

Quantum droplets may form out of a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate, stabilized by quantum fluctuations beyond mean field. We show that multiple singly-quantized vortices may form in these droplets at moderate angular momenta in two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-23 M. Nilsson Tengstrand , P. Stürmer , E. Karabulut , S. M. Reimann

We analyze the formation of transient patterns and spin-spin correlations in quasi-two-dimensional spin-1 homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates subjected to parametric driving of $s$-wave scattering lengths. The dynamics for an initial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-22 Sandra M Jose , Komal Sah , Rejish Nath

Symmetry-breaking quantum phase transitions lead to the production of topological defects or domain walls in a wide range of physical systems. In second-order transitions, these exhibit universal scaling laws described by the Kibble-Zurek…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-15 Matthew T. Wheeler , Hayder Salman , Magnus O. Borgh

We observe solitonic vortices in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate after free expansion. Clear signatures of the nature of such defects are the twisted planar density depletion around the vortex line, observed in absorption images, and the…

We demonstrate a method of controlled creation of spin domains in spin-1 antiferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensates. The method exploits the phenomenon of phase separation of spin components in an external potential. By using an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-24 Tomasz Swislocki , Michal Matuszewski

We propose methods to create fractional vortices in the cyclic state of an F = 2 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate by manipulating its internal spin structure using pulsed microwave and laser fields. The stability of such vortices is studied…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 J. A. M. Huhtamäki , T. P. Simula , M. Kobayashi , K. Machida

We study the uniform solutions to the one-dimensional spinor Bose-Einstein condensates on a ring. These states explicitly display the associated motion of the super-current and the spin rotation, which give rise to fractional winding…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Yong-Kai Liu , Shi-Jie Yang

In order to study the rotating strongly coupled Bose-Einstein condensations(BEC), a holographic model defined in an AdS black hole that duals to a coupled two-component condensations in global $U(1)$ symmetry broken phase with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-26 Wei-Can Yang , Chuan-Yin Xia , Muneto Nitta , Hua-Bi Zeng

We study the formation of vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) that has been prepared by allowing isolated and independent condensed fragments to merge together. We focus on the experimental setup of Scherer {\it et al.} [Phys. Rev.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , B. P. Anderson , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , C. N. Weiler

We investigate the vortex-lattice structure for single- and two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of an optical lattice, which acts as a pinning potential for the vortices. The problem is considered in the mean-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. P. Mink , C. Morais Smith , R. A. Duine

We study the flow of a spinor (F=1) Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of an obstacle. We consider the cases of ferromagnetic and polar spin-dependent interactions and find that the system demonstrates two speeds of sound that are…

The combination of multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and phase imprinting techniques provides an ideal platform for exploring nonlinear dynamics and investigating the quantum transport properties of superfluids. In this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-28 Jianchong Xing , Wenkai Bai , Bo Xiong , Jun-Hui Zheng , Tao Yang

We have computed phase diagrams for rotating spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates with long-range magnetic dipole-dipole interactions. Spin textures including vortex sheets, staggered half-quantum- and skyrmion vortex lattices and higher order…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 T. P. Simula , J. A. M. Huhtamäki , M. Takahashi , T. Mizushima , K. Machida

We provide a detailed description of our previously proposed scheme for topological interface engineering with constructed defects and textures perforating across coherent interfaces between different broken symmetries [M. O. Borgh and J.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-23 Magnus O. Borgh , Janne Ruostekoski