Spontaneous crystallization of skyrmions and fractional vortices in fast-rotating and rapidly quenched spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates

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作者
Su, S-W. [1 ]
Hsueh, C-H. [2 ]
Liu, I-K. [3 ]
Horng, T-L. [4 ]
Tsai, Y-C. [5 ]
Gou, S-C. [3 ]
Liu, W. M. [6 ]
机构
[1] Natl Tsing Hua Univ, Dept Phys, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
[2] Natl Taiwan Normal Univ, Dept Phys, Taipei 11677, Taiwan
[3] Natl Changhua Univ Educ, Dept Phys, Changhua 50058, Taiwan
[4] Feng Chia Univ, Dept Appl Math, Taichung 40724, Taiwan
[5] Feng Chia Univ, Dept Photon, Taichung 40724, Taiwan
[6] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2011年 / 84卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.84.023601
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We investigate the spontaneous generation of crystallized topological defects via the combining effects of fast rotation and rapid thermal quench on spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). By solving the stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we show that, when the system reaches equilibrium, a hexagonal lattice of skyrmions and a square lattice of half-quantized vortices can be formed in a ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic spinor BEC, respectively, which can be imaged by using the polarization-dependent phase-contrast method.
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