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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
卷 18, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/6/063010
关键词
Weyl spin-orbit-coupling; spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate; nematic phases
资金
- NSF of China [11234008, 11474189]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2011CB921601]
- Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT) [IRT13076]
We present a variational study of the spin-1 Bose gases in a harmonic trap with three-dimensional spin-orbit (SO) coupling of Weyl type. For weak SO coupling, we treat the single-particle ground states as the form of perturbational harmonic oscillator states in the lowest total angular momentum manifold with j = 1, m(j) = 1, 0,-1. When the two-body interaction is considered, we set the trail order parameter as the superposition of three degenerate single-particle ground-states and the weight coefficients are determined by minimizing the energy functional. Two ground state phases, namely the magnetic and the nematic phases, are identified depending on the spin-independent and the spin-dependent interactions. Unlike the non-SO-coupled spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate for which the phase boundary between the magnetic and the nematic phase lies exactly at zero spin-dependent interaction, the boundary is modified by the SO-coupling. We find the magnetic phase is featured with phase-separated density distributions, 3D skyrmion-like spin textures and competing magnetic and biaxial nematic orders, while the nematic phase is featured with miscible density distributions, zero magnetization and spatially modulated uniaxial nematic order. The emergence of higher spin order creates new opportunities for exploring spin-tensor-related physics in SO coupled superfluid.
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