Skyrmions in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

2000/02/24 by H. T. C. Stoof, Stoof, H. T. C.
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.stat-mech

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Abstract

We show that spinor Bose-Einstein condensates not only have line-like vortex excitations, but in general also allow for point-like topological excitations, i.e., skyrmions. We discuss the static and dynamic properties of these skyrmions for spin-1/2 and ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose gases.

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