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The vortex-vortex interaction in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates is shown to present characteristic effects not possible in single-component condensates. In particular, vortices in different components undergo separate, but…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Ohberg , L. Santos

We report observations of the formation and subsequent decay of a vortex lattice in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a hybrid optical-magnetic trap. Vortices are induced by rotating the anharmonic magnetic potential that provides…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 A. Rakonjac , A. L. Marchant , T. P. Billam , J. L. Helm , M. M. H. Yu , S. A. Gardiner , S. L. Cornish

In this brief review we summarize a number of recent developments in the study of vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates, a topic of considerable theoretical and experimental interest in the past few years. We examine the generation of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis , I. G. Kevrekidis

We simulate the decay dynamics of an isolated monopole defect in the nematic vector of a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate during the polar-to-ferromagnetic phase transition of the system. Importantly, the decay of the monopole occurs in the…

We classify vortex-core structures according to the topology of the order parameter space. By developing a method to characterize how the order parameter changes inside the vortex core. We apply this method to the spin-1 Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-25 Shingo Kobayashi , Yuki Kawaguchi , Muneto Nitta , Masahito Ueda

We consider the quasi-2D two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling in a rotating trap. An external Zeeman term favoring spin polarization along the radial direction is also considered, which has the same…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-27 Xiang-Fa Zhou , Jing Zhou , Congjun Wu

We show that the Landau vortex-free state in rotating container may give rise to the lattice of spin vortices. We consider this effect on example of spin vortices in magnon Bose-Einstein condensate (the phase coherent spin precession) in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-14 G. E. Volovik

We investigate vortex states in Bose-Einstein condensates under the combined action of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), gradient magnetic field, and harmonic-oscillator trapping potential. The linear version of the system is solved exactly.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-02-06 Huan-Bo Luo , Lu Li , Boris A. Malomed , Yongyao Li , Bin Liu

Bose-Einstein condensation in alkali atoms has materialized quite an interesting system, namely a condensate with a spin degree of freedom. In analogy with the A-phase of the superfluid $^3$He, numerous textures with nonvanishing vorticity…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikio Nakahara , Tomoya Isoshima , Kazushige Machida , Shin-ichiro Ogawa , Tetsuo Ohmi

In the easy-plane phase, a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate is magnetized in a plane transverse to the applied Zeeman field. This phase supports polar-core spin vortices (PCVs), which consist of phase windings of transverse…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-29 Zachary L. Stevens-Hough , Matthew J. Davis , Lewis A. Williamson

Motivated by a recent experiment, we study non-equilibrium quantum phenomena taking place in the quench of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate through the zero-temperature phase transition separating the polar paramagnetic and planar…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-19 Michael Uhlmann , Ralf Schützhold , Uwe R. Fischer

A method to produce a spin-dependent rotating potential using near-resonant circularly polarized laser beams is proposed. It is shown that half-quantum vortices are nucleated in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate with an antiferromagnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-02 Hiroki Chiba , Hiroki Saito

We analyze the structure of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of a homogenous magnetic field. We classify the homogenous stationary states and study their existence, bifurcations, and energy spectra. We reveal that the phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-09-01 Michal Matuszewski , Tristram J. Alexander , Yuri S. Kivshar

Dynamics of skyrmionic spin texture in the spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate is examined by analytical and numerical means. We show the skyrmion (coreless vortex) to be inherently unstable in the sense that the state initially prepared purely…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-19 Xiao-Qiang Xu , Jung Hoon Han

The general properties of the order parameter for a dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensate are discussed based on symmetries of interactions. An initially spin-polarized dipolar condensate is shown to dynamically generate a non-singular…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuki Kawaguchi , Hiroki Saito , Masahito Ueda

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

We investigate the ground-state structures and vortex configurations in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) under the influence of spin-orbital-angular-momentum coupling (SOAMC) with a high spatial inhomogeneity and high…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-25 O. O. Prykhodko , L. V. Zadorozhna

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 theoretically and numerically investigate the generation of fractional-charge vortex dipoles in spinor condensates with non-zero magnetization. We find that in the antiferromagnetic phase of spin-1 and spin-2 and the cyclic phase of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-28 Sandeep Gautam

We propose to the create vortices in spin-1 condensates via magnetic dipole-dipole interaction. Starting with a polarized condensate prepared under large axial magnetic field, we show that by gradually inverting the field, population…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -N. Zhang , L. He , H. Pu , C. -P. Sun , S. Yi