Published February 17, 2006 | Version v1
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Breaking of Chiral Symmetry and Spontaneous Rotation in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Creators

  • 1. Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551 (Japan)
  • 2. ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Saitama 332-0012 (Japan)

Description

We show that a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate with ferromagnetic interactions spontaneously generates a topological spin texture, in which the m=±1 components of the magnetic sublevels form vortices with opposite circulations. This phenomenon originates from an interplay between ferromagnetic interactions and spin conservation

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.065302;
arXiv
arXiv:cond-mat/0512216v1;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
96
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 065302-065302.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37082910
Subject category
S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; CHIRAL SYMMETRY; FERROMAGNETISM; INTERACTIONS; ROTATION; SPIN; SYMMETRY BREAKING; VORTICES
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; MAGNETISM; MOTION; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; SYMMETRY

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Notes
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