2002/12/20 by A. E. Leanhardt, Y. Shin, Yong-il Shin +5 · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Bose–Einstein condensate #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Magnetic field #Magnetic trap #Mechanics #Phase (matter) #Physics #Population #Quantum mechanics #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Spin (aerodynamics) #Spinor #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #Thermodynamics #Trap (plumbing) #Vortex #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.90.140403
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 140403 (2003) · 5 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2002/12/20 · openalex publication_date 2003/04/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Coreless vortices were phase imprinted in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. The three-component order parameter of F=1 sodium condensates held in a Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic trap was manipulated by adiabatically reducing the magnetic bias field along the trap axis to zero. This distributed the condensate population across its three spin states and created a spin texture. Each spin state acquired a different phase winding which caused the spin components to separate radially.