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Title: Textures of F=2 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates with spin-orbit coupling

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Department of Physics, Okayama University, Okayama 700-8530 (Japan)

We study the textures of F=2 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) induced by a synthetic non-Abelian gauge field. On the basis of the analysis of the SOC energy and the numerical calculation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we demonstrate that the textures originate from the helical modulation of the order parameter (OP) due to the SOC. In particular, the cyclic OP consists of two-dimensional lattice textures, such as the hexagonal lattice and the (1/3) vortex lattice, commonly understandable as the two-dimensional network of the helical modulations.

OSTI ID:
22038572
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 84, Issue 1; Other Information: (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English