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In Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC), spin-orbit coupling (SOC) produces supersolidity. It is a peculiar state of matter, which, in addition to the superfluid behaviour shows periodic density modulation typical for crystals. Here, we report…

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

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 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

We investigate the ground-state properties of spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in spin-dependent optical lattices. The competition between the spin-orbit coupling strength and the depth of the optical lattice leads to a rich…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-11 Wei Han , Suying Zhang , Wu-Ming Liu

The study investigates the formation, stability and dynamic advancement of two-dimensional vortex quantum droplets within binary Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), shaped by the interplay of photonic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-04 Suri Deekshita , S. Sanjay , S. Saravana Veni , Conrad B. Tabi , Timoleon C. Kofane

We investigate the dynamics of kicked pseudo-spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a tightly confined toroidal trap. The system exhibits different dynamical behaviors depending on the competition among…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-06 Qingbo Wang , Wenjing Zhao , Linghua Wen

We investigate the spin Faraday pattern formation in a periodically driven, pancake-shaped spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) prepared with stripe phase. By modulating atomic interactions using in-phase and out-of-phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-16 Shixiang Chen , Hongguang Liang , Juan Wang , Yan Li

We demonstrate spontaneous generation of spatially-periodic supersolid-like super-lattice and stripe solitons in Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupled spin-1 and spin-2 quasi-two-dimensional nonmagnetic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-04 Pardeep Kaur , Sandeep Gautam , S. K. Adhikari

The recent realization of synthetic spin-orbit coupling represents an outstanding achievement in the physics of ultracold quantum gases. In this review we explore the properties of a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate with equal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-05 Yun Li , Giovanni I. Martone , Sandro Stringari

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

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

We theoretically investigate a scheme to enhance spin squeezing in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by utilizing the inherent mean-field dynamics of the condensate. Due to the asymmetry in the scattering lengths, the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-20 S. A. Haine , J. Lau , R. P. Anderson , M. T. Johnsson

Spin-orbit (SO) coupling -- the interaction between a quantum particle's spin and its momentum -- is ubiquitous in nature, from atoms to solids. In condensed matter systems, SO coupling is crucial for the spin-Hall effect and topological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 Y. -J. Lin , K. Jiménez-García , I. B. Spielman

Recently spin-orbit (SO) coupled superfluids in free space or harmonic traps have been extensively studied, motivated by the recent experimental realization of SO coupling for Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). However, the rich physics of SO…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-21 Yongping Zhang , Chuanwei Zhang

We demonstrate the existence of compactons matter waves in binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) trapped in deep optical lattices (OL) subjected to equal contributions of intra-species Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-10 F. Kh. Abdullaev , M. S. A. Hadi , B. Umarov , L. A. Taib , Mario Salerno

We propose a scheme for spin-squeezing in the orbital motion of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a toroidal trap. A circular lattice couples two counter-rotating modes and squeezing is generated by the nonlinear interaction spatially…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-28 Tomáš Opatrný , Michal Kolář , Kunal K. Das

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 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

We report analytical solutions for diverse multi-pole (MP) soliton and breather states in spatially inhomogeneous binary Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with the helicoidally shaped spin-orbit coupling (SOC), including MP stripe solitons…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-02 Cui-Cui Ding , Qin Zhou , B. A. Malomed