Published October 10, 2003
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Journal article
Normal-superfluid interaction dynamics in a spinor Bose gas
- 1. JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440 (United States)
Description
Coherent behavior of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates is studied in the presence of a significant uncondensed (normal) component. Normal-superfluid exchange scattering leads to near-perfect local alignment between the spin fields of the two components. We observe that, through this spin locking, spin-domain formation in the condensate is vastly accelerated as the spin populations in the condensate are entrained by large-amplitude spin waves in the normal component
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 91
- Journal Issue
- 15
- Journal Page Range
- p. 150402-150402.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36009633
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
- Descriptors DEI
- BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS; SPIN; SPIN WAVES; SUPERFLUIDITY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PARTICLE PROPERTIES
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- Notes
- (c) 2003 The American Physical Society