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Emergent patterns in a spin-orbit-coupled spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 (China)
The ground-state phases of a spin-orbit (SO)-coupled atomic spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate are studied. Interesting density patterns forme spontaneously are widespread due to the competition between SO coupling and spin-dependent interactions as in an SO-coupled spin-1 condensate. Unlike the case of spin-1 condensates, which are characterized by either a ferromagnetic or a polar phase in the absence of SO, spin-2 condensates can take a cyclic phase, where we find that the patterns formed due to SO are square or triangular in their spin-component densities for axial symmetric SO interaction. Both patterns are found to evolve continuously into striped forms with increased asymmetry of the SO coupling.
OSTI ID:
21546815
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 83; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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