Weakly interacting spinor Bose-Einstein condensates with three-dimensional spin-orbit coupling

作者:Song, Shu-Wei*; Sun, Rui; Zhao, Hong; Wang, Xuan; Han, Bao-Zhong
来源:Chinese Physics B, 2016, 25(4): 040305.
DOI:10.1088/1674-1056/25/4/040305

摘要

Starting from the Hamiltonian of the second quantization form, the weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate with spin-orbit coupling of Weyl type is investigated. It is found that the SU(2) nonsymmetric term, i.e., the spin-dependent interaction, can lift the degeneracy of the ground states with respect to the z component of the total angular momentum J(z), casting the ground condensate state into a configuration of zero J(z). This ground state density profile can also be affirmed by minimizing the full Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional. The spin texture of the zero J(z) state indicates that it is a knot structure, whose fundamental group is pi(3)(M) congruent to pi(3) (S-2) = Z.

  • 出版日期2016-4
  • 单位哈尔滨学院