In this paper, we investigate the dynamic properties of spin–orbit coupling spin-1 ferromagnetic Bose–Einstein condensates with different trap geometry. Our results are obtained in terms of the three-component Gross–Pitaevskii equation of mean-field theory. Two kinds of trap potential are discussed: isotropic and anisotropic. It is shown that the spin-exchange dynamics are greatly influenced by trap geometry. For the latter with weak spin–orbit coupling strength, we find that the three-component oscillation accelerates and some small difference emerges between component m=1 and m=-1. With the increase in spin–orbit coupling strength, the three components reach almost the same population. In addition, the kinetic energy of the system changes within a small scope for strong spin–orbit coupling, as opposed to a constant value in an isotropic trap. The density distributions display that the stripe phase appears with the increase in spin–orbit coupling strength. The method of generating stripe structure is different from the ground state of ferromagnetic condensate. For isotropic trap, the spatial separation of top and bottom spin–orbit condensates in component m=1 and m=-1 occurs at weak spin–orbit coupling, and square lattice appears at strong spin–orbit coupling.
In this paper, we investigate the dynamic properties of spin–orbit coupling spin-1 ferromagnetic Bose–Einstein condensates with different trap geometry. Our results are obtained in terms of the three-component Gross–Pitaevskii equation of mean-field theory. Two kinds of trap potential are discussed: isotropic and anisotropic. It is shown that the spin-exchange dynamics are greatly influenced by trap geometry. For the latter with weak spin–orbit coupling strength, we find that the three-component oscillation accelerates and some small difference emerges between component m=1 and m=-1. With the increase in spin–orbit coupling strength, the three components reach almost the same population. In addition, the kinetic energy of the system changes within a small scope for strong spin–orbit coupling, as opposed to a constant value in an isotropic trap. The density distributions display that the stripe phase appears with the increase in spin–orbit coupling strength. The method of generating stripe structure is different from the ground state of ferromagnetic condensate. For isotropic trap, the spatial separation of top and bottom spin–orbit condensates in component m=1 and m=-1 occurs at weak spin–orbit coupling, and square lattice appears at strong spin–orbit coupling.
In this article, we study the vortex formation in spin-1 spin–orbit coupling rotating Bose–Einstein condensates. Numerical results are obtained by solving the spinor Gross–Pitaevskii equation. We mainly focus on the influences of external magnetic fields on vortex structures and dynamics properties. With the increase in magnetic field strength, the populations of magnetic components j=±1 reach the identical value. For the density profile, the three components present identical density structures, and the size of condensates is nearly the same. In addition, some related physical quantities, such as the time taken for the arrival of a steady population and root-mean-square size, kinetic energy, and total angular momentum, are calculated. The results show that these quantities decrease as the magnetic field strength increases. Moreover, we also investigate the time evolution of angular momentum. It is seen that the dynamic behavior of the magnetic components j=±1 is exactly consistent, and the total angular momentum reduces in the presence of the strong magnetic field. This reflects the fact that the introduction of the strong magnetic field makes it difficult to rotate the condensate, and thus, it is disadvantageous for generating more vortices.
In this paper, we study the dynamic properties of spin–orbit coupling (SOC) spin-1 antiferromagnetic Bose–Einstein condensates with inhomogeneous external magnetic field by numerical simulations of the multicomponent Gross–Pitaevskii equation. Our results show that the spin dynamics process is greatly affected by SOC when the system is in the absence of magnetic field. The periodicity of spin exchange dynamics disappears and the population of thermal clouds for [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] gradually increases and decreases and then reaches a steady value. In this case, a stable stripe phase emerges for three-component wavefunction. Nevertheless, the spin dynamics process becomes complex in the presence of magnetic field, depending on the competition between magnetic field and SOC. The influences of SOC are masked by the relatively strong magnetic field and the density structures are similar to the case of without or weak magnetic field.
Realization of spinor Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical trap has made it possible to create a variety of topological nontrivial structures, due to the vector character of the order parameter. Recently, artificial spin-orbit coupling in the spinor Bose-Einstein condensate, owing to coupling between the spin and the center-of-mass motion of the atom, provides an unprecedented opportunity to search for novel quantum states. As is well known, the potential well in the Bose-Einstein condensate is adjustable. The toroidal trap is an important model potential because of its simplicity and richness in physics. In particular, the spinor Bose-Einstein condensate under the toroidal trap has brought an ideal platform for studying fascinating properties of a superfluid, such as persistent flow and symmetry-breaking localization. For the case of the spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate, the previous studies of the toroidal trap mainly focused on the two-component or antiferromagnetic case. However, in the presence of a toroidal trap, there remains an open question whether the combined effects of the spin-orbit coupling and rotation can produce previously unknown types of topological excitations in the ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate. In this work, by using quasi two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equations, we study the ground state structure of spin-orbit coupled rotating ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate in the toroidal trap. We concentrate on the effects of the spin-orbit coupling and the rotation on the ground states. The numerical results show that in the presence of a toroidal trap, the ground state structure is displayed as half-skyrmion chain with circular distribution. Adjusting the strength of spin-orbit coupling not only changes the number of half-skyrmion in the system, but also controls the symmetry of half-skyrmion with circular distribution. As the rotation frequency increases, the system undergoes the transitions from the plane wave to the half-skyrmion chain with circular distribution, and eventually developing the half-skyrmion phase of triangular lattice. Next, we examine the effect of spin-independent interaction on spin-orbit coupled rotating spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. As the spin-independent interaction increases, the topological defects in the condensate increase due to the variation of the local magnetic order. We also discuss the influence of well shape on the ground state structure. These topological structures can be detected via the time-of-flight absorption imaging technique. The spin-orbit coupled spinor Bose-Einstein condensate in the toroidal trap is an important quantum platform, which not only opens up a new avenue for exploring the exotic topological structures, but also is crucial for realizing the transitions among different ground states. This work paves the way for futureexploring the topological defects and the corresponding dynamical stability in quantum system subjected to the toroidal trap.
In this paper, we investigate the spin–orbit coupling of F = 1 dipolar Bose–Einstein condensates in a quasi-one-dimensional trap by solving the mean field Gross–Pitaevskii equation. We focus on the two phases, ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic. For the former, we find that the spin echo signal emerges gradually as the spin–orbit coupling strength increases, which favors miscibility in density profile. The dipolar interaction plays a tiny role in the spin dynamics process, the qualitative behavior remains almost unchanged. Nevertheless, for the antiferromagnetic phase, the physical picture greatly changes. The spin echo signal abruptly increases with the increase in spin–orbit coupling strength, and the density structure exhibits phase separation. With the emergence of dipolar interaction, the spin echo signal vanishes, and the evolution of the three components is ruleless. Meanwhile, the condensate deviates from the property of phase separation. Also, we analyze the effect of the number of atoms on spin dynamics. It is obvious that the reduction of atoms increases the number of spin echo signals for the ferromagnetic phase regardless of the nature of dipolar interaction. In addition, for the antiferromagnetic phase, such a decrease gives rise to the disappearance of the spin echo signal in the absence of dipolar interaction, and its influence is small when dipolar interaction is added.
We consider the spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates with the isotropic Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a two-dimensional toroidal trap. Three types of striped phases are found in a nonrotational system, i.e., the stripe phase with the periodic density modulation along the azimuthal direction, the stripe phase with the periodic density modulation along both the azimuthal and the radial directions, and the stripe phase with the periodic density modulation along the radial direction. By adding the rotation, the condensates occupy the mF=0 component for small rotational frequency, while they occupy both the mF=1 and ${m}_{F}=\ensuremath{-}1$ components for large rotational frequency when both the relative interaction and the spin-orbit coupling are weak. For the stronger relative interaction and spin-orbit coupling, the vortices of the system are elongated along the radial direction and linked one after another. As the rotational frequency further increases, the density evolves from the elongated effect of the vortices into a laminar vortex ring.
We study analytically and asymptotically, as well as numerically, ground states and dynamics of two-component spin-orbit-coupled Bose--Einstein condensates (BECs) modeled by the coupled Gross--Pitaevskii equations (CGPEs). In fact, due to the appearance of the spin-orbit (SO) coupling in the two-component BEC with a Raman coupling, the ground state structures and dynamical properties become very rich and complicated. For the ground states, we establish existence and nonexistence results under different parameter regimes and obtain their limiting behaviors and/or structures with different combinations of the SO and Raman coupling strengths. For the dynamics, we show that the motion of the center-of-mass is either nonperiodic or with different frequency than the trapping frequency when the external trapping potential is taken as harmonic and/or the initial data is chosen as a stationary state (e.g., ground state) with a shift, which is completely different from the case of a two-component BEC without the SO coupling, and obtain the semiclassical limit of the CGPEs in the linear case via the Wigner transform method. Efficient and accurate numerical methods are proposed for computing the ground states and dynamics, especially for the case of box potentials. Numerical results are reported to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the numerical methods and show the rich phenomenon in the SO-coupled BECs.