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We examine the combined effects of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and rotation on trapped spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Nature of single particle states is thoroughly examined in the Landau level basis and is shown to support…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-22 Xiao-Qiang Xu , Jung Hoon Han

This study explores the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with helicoidal spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Rabi coupling, confined under a two-dimensional harmonic potential. The relationship between helicoidal SOC, non-linear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-27 Sai Satyaprakash Biswal , S. Saravana Veni

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

Spin-orbit (SO) coupling can be introduced in a Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) as a gauge potential acting only in a localized spatial domain. Effect of such a SO "defect" can be understood by transforming the system to the integrable…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-23 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

The phases of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with light-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) are studied within the mean-field approximation. The mixed BEC phase, in which the system condenses in a superposition of two plane wave states, is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Qin-Qin Lü , Daniel E. Sheehy

We investigate the ground-state properties of a dual-species spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensate. One of the species is subjected to a pair of Raman laser beams that induces spin-orbit (SO) coupling, whereas the other species is not coupled…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-04 Li Chen , Chuanzhou Zhu , Yunbo Zhang , Han Pu

We study localized nonlinear excitations of a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with spin-orbit coupling in a deep optical lattice (OL). We use Wannier functions to derive a tight-binding model that includes the spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-30 Mario Salerno , Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev

We consider an attractive quasi-one dimensional spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate (SOC BEC) confined in a periodic potential produced by the combination of linear and nonlinear optical lattices, and study the effects of squeezing…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-09 Golam Ali Sekh , Benoy Talukdar

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

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the intrinsic interaction between a particle spin and its motion, is responsible for various important phenomena, ranging from atomic fine structure to topological condensed matter physics. The recent experimental…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-05 Yongping Zhang , Gang Chen , Chuanwei Zhang

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

We examine a spinor Bose gas confined by an elongated trap. Since a spin-independent energy is much higher than a spin-dependent energy in alkali species, the system exhibits different properties by changing a radial confinement. We show…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-06 Shun Uchino

We investigate the dynamics of a spin-orbit (SO) coupled BECs in a time dependent harmonic trap and show the dynamical system to be completely integrable by constructing the Lax pair. We then employ gauge transformation approach to witness…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-28 P. S. Vinayagam , R. Radha , S. Bhuvaneswari , R. Ravisankar , P. Muruganandam

We address the impact of intra-site spin-orbit (SO) coupling and associated inter-component Rabi coupling on the modulational instability (MI) of plane-wave states in two-component discrete Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Conditions for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-04 S. Sabari , R. TamilThiruvalluvar , R. Radha

We consider a two-component pancake-shaped, i.e., effectively two-dimensional (2D), Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) coupled by the spin-orbit (SO) and Rabi terms. The SO coupling adopted here is of the mixed Rashba-Dresselhaus type. For this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-14 Luca Salasnich , Wesley B. Cardoso , Boris A. Malomed

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 apply the concepts of nonlinear guided-wave optics to a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in an external potential. As an example, we consider a parabolic double-well potential and derive coupled-mode equations for the complex…

Understanding the effects of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and many-body interactions on spin transport is important in condensed matter physics and spintronics. This topic has been intensively studied for spin carriers such as electrons but…

We study matter-wave bright solitons in spin-orbit (SO) coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with attractive interatomic interactions. We use a multiscale expansion method to identify solution families for chemical potentials in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-09 V. Achilleos , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. E. Pelinovsky

The experimental realization of emergent spin-orbit coupling through laser-induced Raman transitions in ultracold atoms paves the way for exploring novel superfluid physics and simulating exotic many-body phenomena. A recent proposal with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-02 Chunlei Qu , Kuei Sun , Chuanwei Zhang