Abstract
We show that a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate with ferromagnetic interactions spontaneously generates a topological spin texture, in which the components of the magnetic sublevels form vortices with opposite circulations. This phenomenon originates from an interplay between ferromagnetic interactions and spin conservation.
- Received 11 December 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.065302
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