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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.165301
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- DOE [DE-FG02-03ER15450]
- NSF [1100179]
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1100179] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We have experimentally observed the emergence of spontaneous antiferromagnetic spatial order in a sodium spinor Bose-Einstein condensate that was quenched through a magnetic phase transition. For negative values of the quadratic Zeeman shift, a gas initially prepared in the F = 1, m(F) = 0 state collapsed into a dynamically evolving superposition of all three spin projections, m(F) = 0, +/- 1. The quench gave rise to rich, nonequilibrium behavior where both nematic and magnetic spin waves were generated. We characterized the spatiotemporal evolution through two particle correlations between atoms in each pair of spin states. These revealed dramatic differences between the dynamics of the spin correlations and those of the spin populations. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.165301
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