Topological interface physics of defects and textures in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

Borgh, Magnus O. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4243-7051 and Ruostekoski, Janne (2013) Topological interface physics of defects and textures in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. Physical Review A, 87 (3). ISSN 1050-2947

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Abstract

We provide a detailed description of our previously proposed scheme for topological interface engineering with constructed defects and textures perforating across coherent interfaces between different broken symmetries [Borgh and Ruostekoski, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 015302 (2012)]. We consider a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate, in which polar and ferromagnetic phases are prepared in spatially separated regions. We show that a stable coherent interface is established between the two phases, allowing defects of different topology to connect continuously across the boundary. We provide analytic constructions of interface-crossing defect solutions that could be experimentally phase imprinted using existing technology. By numerically minimizing the energy, we calculate the core structures of interface-crossing defect configurations. We demonstrate nontrivial core deformations to considerably more complex structures, such as the formation of an arch-shaped half-quantum line defect, an Alice arch, at the interface, with the topological charge of a point defect, whose emergence may be understood by the “hairy ball” theorem. Another example of an energetically stable object is the connection of a coreless vortex to a pair of half-quantum vortices. We show that rotation leads to spontaneous nucleation of defects in which a coreless vortex continuously transforms to a half-quantum vortex across the interface.

Item Type: Article
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Chemistry
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Quantum Fluids
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Photonics and Quantum Science
Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 13 Oct 2016 08:00
Last Modified: 09 Feb 2023 13:44
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/60904
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.033617

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