arXiv:1702.00040 · Physical Review A

Internal structure and stability of vortices in a dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

Magnus O. Borgh, Justin Lovegrove, Janne Ruostekoski

Published May 1, 2017• 19 citations

Abstract

Effects of diplolar interactions on the structure of vortices are studied theoretically for spinor Bose-Einstein condensates of Cr atoms, where experimentally observable non-Abelian vortices, thanks to a ground-state order parameter that exhibits a hexagonal point-group symmetry, are predicted.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.95.053601

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