Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Atomic Hydrogen Gas

作者:Vainio O*; Ahokas J; Jarvinen J; Lehtonen L; Novotny S; Sheludiakov S; Suominen K A; Vasiliev S; Zvezdov D; Khmelenko V V; Lee D M
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2015, 114(12): 125304.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.125304

摘要

We report on experimental observation of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC)-like behavior of quantized electron spin waves (magnons) in a dense gas of spin-polarized atomic hydrogen. The magnons are trapped and controlled with inhomogeneous magnetic fields and described by a Schrodinger-like wave equation, in analogy to the BEC experiments with neutral atoms. We have observed the appearance of a sharp feature in the ESR spectrum displaced from the normal spin wave spectrum. We believe that this observation corresponds to a sudden growth of the ground-state population of the magnons and emergence of their spontaneous coherence for hydrogen gas densities exceeding a critical value, dependent on the trapping potential. We interpret the results as a BEC of nonequilibrium magnons which were formed by applying the rf power.

  • 出版日期2015-3-27