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Spin-orbit photonics in a fixed cavity: Harnessing Bogoliubov modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate

Ghaisud Din, Muqaddar Abbas, Pei Zhang

Published Nov 12, 2025• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present a theoretical investigation of spin-orbit photonics within a fixed mirror cavity system containing a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), in which the Bogoliubov excitation modes of the condensate are treated as effective mechanical oscillators. By embedding the condensate in a single-mode optical cavity, we explore the emergence and modulation of the photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) through the spin-dependent transverse shifts of a weak probe field. The optical response —encoded in the real and imaginary components of the output field susceptibility— is systematically analyzed as a function of the condensate-cavity coupling strength, revealing a controllable enhancement or suppression of the spin-orbit interaction. Our model captures how the interplay between collective BEC excitations and cavity photon dynamics induces nontrivial modifications in spin-dependent light propagation. Notably, we uncover that the Bogoliubov mode coupling acts as a tunable channel for mediating spin angular momentum transfer within the cavity, offering a novel route for engineering compact, quantum-coherent spin-orbit photonic devices.

DOI
10.21468/scipostphyscore.8.4.082

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Abstract We show that rotation can strongly amplify the photonic spin Hall effect in a ring Bose–Einstein condensate. For an incident probe beam carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM), the spin-dependent transverse shift of the reflected light is weak in the non-rotating regime but becomes strongly enhanced under rotation because rotation lifts the degeneracy of the condensate mechanical modes via Bragg scattering. The resulting mode splitting produces large photonic spin Hall shifts at ultra-low optical power, with the enhancement increasing with both the condensate winding number L p and the probe OAM l , while remaining weakly affected by atom–atom interactions. Our findings elucidate a rotation-governed mechanism underlying spin-dependent light transport in hybrid atom–optomechanical systems, thereby highlighting its potential for applications in high-precision rotational sensing.
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Cavity-optomechanics, an exploitation of mechanical-effects of light to couple optical-field with mechanical-objects, has made remarkable progress. Besides, spin-orbit (SO)-coupling, interaction between spin of a quantum-particle and its momentum, has provided foundation to analyze various phenomena like spin-Hall effect and topological-insulators. However, SO-coupling and corresponding topological-features have not been examined in optical-cavity with one vibrational-mirror. Here we report cavity-optomechanics with SO-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate, inducing non-Abelian gauge-field in cavity. We ascertain the influences of SO-coupling and long-range atomic-interactions on low-temperature dynamics which can be experimentally measured by maneuvering area underneath density-noise spectrum. It is detected that not only optomechanical-coupling is modifying topological properties of atomic dressed-states but SO-coupling induced topological-effects are also enabling us to control effective-temperature of mechanical-mirror and dynamic structure factor, which is measurable by detecting neutron-scattering. Our findings are testable in a realistic setup and provide foundations to manipulate SO-coupling in the field of quantum optics and quantum computation.
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The coupled dynamics of the atom and photon fields in optical ring cavities with two counterpropagating modes give rise to both spin-orbit interactions as well as long-ranged interactions between atoms of a many-body system. At zero temperature, the interplay between the two-body and cavity-mediated interactions determines the ground state of a Bose-Einstein condensate. In this work, we find that cavity quantum electrodynamics in the weak-coupling regime favors a stripe-phase state over a plane-wave phase as the strength of cavity-mediated interactions increases. Indeed, the stripe phase is energetically stabilized even for condensates with attractive intraspecies and interspecies interactions for sufficiently large cavity interactions. The elementary excitation spectra in both phases correspond to linear dispersion relation at long wavelengths, indicating that both phases exhibit superfluidity, although the plane-wave phase also displays a characteristic roton-type feature. The results suggest that even in the weak-coupling regime, cavities can yield interesting new physics in ultracold quantum gases.