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Rotons can exist in ultracold atomic gases either with long-range interactions or with spin-orbitcoupled dispersions. We find that two different kinds of rotons coexist in a joint system combining long-range interactions and spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-02 Hao Lyu , Yongping Zhang

In a trapped spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensate with miscible interactions, a two-dimensional spin-orbit coupling can introduce an unconventional spatial separation between the two components. We reveal the physical mechanism of such a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-06 Zhiqian Gui , Zhenming Zhang , Jin Su , Hao Lyu , Yongping Zhang

Realistic methods to create vortices in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates are discussed. It is shown that, contrary to common intuition, rotation of the trap containing a spin-orbit condensate does not lead to an equilibrium…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 Juraj Radic , Tigran Sedrakyan , Ian Spielman , Victor Galitski

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

We analytically and numerically investigate the ground state of the spin-orbit coupled spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates in an external parabolic potential. When the spin-orbit coupling strength $\kappa$ is comparable with that of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 Shu-Wei Song , Yi-Cai Zhang , Qing Sun , Hanquan Wang , Lin Wen , A. C. Ji , W. M. Liu

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

We propose a novel scheme to generate the spin-orbit coupling for a condensate placed inside an optical cavity by using a standing wave and a traveling wave. It is shown that the interplay of the laser lights and the cavity gives rise to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-23 Y. Deng , J. Cheng , H. Jing , S. Yi

We analyze the generation and mobility of discrete solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates confined in an optical lattice under realistic experimental conditions. We discuss first the creation of 1D discrete solitons, for both attractive and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Ahufinger , A. Sanpera , P. Pedri , L. Santos , M. Lewenstein

A model of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring optical lattice with atomic dissipations applied at a stationary or at a moving location on the ring is presented. The localized dissipation is shown to generate and stabilize both stationary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 Russell Campbell , Gian-Luca Oppo

We present gap solitons (GSs) that can be created in free nearly two-dimensional (2D) space in dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensates with the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), subject to tight confinement, with size $a_{\perp }$, in the third…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-22 Yongyao Li , Yan Liu , Zhiwei Fan , Wei Pang , Shenhe Fu , Boris A. Malomed

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

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 demonstrate stable and metastable vortex-bright solitons in a three-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled three-component hyperfine spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) using numerical solution and variational approximation of a mean-field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-08-20 Sandeep Gautam , S. K. Adhikari

We study a quasispin-$1/2$ Bose-Einstein condensate with synthetically generated spin-orbit coupling in a toroidal trap, and show that the system has a rich variety of ground and metastable states. As the central hole region increases,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-22 Xiao-Fei Zhang , Masaya Kato , Wei Han , Shou-Gang Zhang , Hiroki Saito

It is known that the interplay of the spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) and mean-field self-attraction creates stable two-dimensional (2D) solitons (ground states) in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. However, SOC destroys the system's Galilean…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-23 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Fumihide Hirano , Boris A. Malomed

We study the formation of spin-1 symbiotic spinor solitons in a quasi-one- (quasi-1D) and quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) hyper-fine spin $F=1$ ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The symbiotic solitons necessarily have a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-12 S K Adhikari

By means of variational methods and systematic numerical analysis, we demonstrate the existence of stable solitons in three-dimensional (3D) free space, in the context of binary atomic condensates combining contact self-attraction and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-23 Yong-Chang Zhang , Zheng-Wei Zhou , Boris A. Malomed , Han Pu

We investigate the vortex lattice configuration in a rotating spin orbit-coupled spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a quasi-two-dimensional harmonic trap. By considering the interplay between rotation frequency, spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-10-10 Paramjeet Banger

A negative effective mass can be realized in quantum systems by engineering the dispersion relation. A powerful method is provided by spin-orbit coupling, which is currently at the center of intense research efforts. Here we measure an…

We propose an experimental scheme to create spin-orbit coupling in spin-3 Cr atoms using Raman processes. Employing linear Zeeman effect and optical Stark shift, two spin states within the ground electronic manifold are selected, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-11 Y. Deng , J. Cheng , H. Jing , C. -P. Sun , S. Yi