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Weiss, L. S., Borgh, M. O. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4243-7051, Blinova, A., Ollikainen, T., Möttönen, M., Ruostekoski, J. and Hall, D. S.
(2019)
Controlled creation of a singular spinor vortex by circumventing the Dirac belt trick.
Nature Communications, 10 (1).
ISSN 2041-1723
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Abstract
Persistent topological defects and textures are particularly dramatic consequences of superfluidity. Among the most fascinating examples are the singular vortices arising from the rotational symmetry group SO(3), with surprising topological properties illustrated by Dirac’s famous belt trick. Despite considerable interest, controlled preparation and detailed study of vortex lines with complex internal structure in fully three-dimensional spinor systems remains an outstanding experimental challenge. Here, we propose and implement a reproducible and controllable method for creating and detecting a singular SO(3) line vortex from the decay of a non-singular spin texture in a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose–Einstein condensate. Our experiment explicitly demonstrates the SO(3) character and the unique spinor properties of the defect. Although the vortex is singular, its core fills with atoms in the topologically distinct polar magnetic phase. The resulting stable, coherent topological interface has analogues in systems ranging from condensed matter to cosmology and string theory.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | chemistry(all),biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology(all),physics and astronomy(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1600 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Physics Faculty of Science |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Quantum Fluids Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Photonics and Quantum Science |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Oct 2019 11:30 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2023 13:47 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/72780 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41467-019-12787-1 |
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