Breaking of Chiral Symmetry and Spontaneous Rotation in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Hiroki Saito, Yuki Kawaguchi, and Masahito Ueda
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 065302 – Published 15 February 2006

Abstract

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.

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  • Received 11 December 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.065302

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Hiroki Saito1, Yuki Kawaguchi1, and Masahito Ueda1,2

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

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Vol. 96, Iss. 6 — 17 February 2006

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