Journal of North University of China
The Mean Field Effects of Dipolar Interaction on the Spinor Condensates
Wang Hong-me
Abstract
In order to uncover the effects of dipolar interaction on the magnetic properties of cold atom system,the ground state properties of dipolar spin-1,spin-2and binary mixed spin-1Bose-Einstein condensates(BEC)were studied.By treating field operator with mean field method and single model approximation,and minimizing the energy functional,the ground state phase diagrams were got.Then the diagrams with and without dipolar interaction were compared.The calculations show that under the dipole interaction,the degeneracy for ferromagnetic phases of spinor BEC is released and the boundaries between ferromagnetic and other phases are moved.The influence of dipole interaction on the spin-2alkali atoms is smaller than for spin-1alkali atoms in quantity and is analogous with binary mixed spin-1BEC qualitatively.The calculated quantities for every phase boundary provide reference for the related experiments.