自旋-轨道耦合二分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚系统的孤子解

在旋量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中,孤子态作为宏观量子效应的典型状态,可以通过自旋-轨道耦合进行调控,这使得对自旋-轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中孤子的研究成为近年来超冷原子领域研究的重要课题之一.本文研究了描述一维自旋-轨道耦合二分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体Gross-Pitaevskii方程的精确求解,利用直接假设及可积约化方法,给出了系统多种类型的孤子解,讨论了相应的孤子动力学以及自旋-轨道耦合效应对系统的量子磁化和自旋-极化态的影响.     

六极子磁场中自旋轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构

研究囚禁在环形势中的Rashba自旋轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体在六极子磁场中的基态特性。在这种情况下,磁场破坏了自旋轨道耦合哈密顿量的旋转对称性,但系统仍具有2π/3的离散对称性。数值结果发现:在弱相互作用情况下,六极子磁场和Rashba自旋轨道耦合使环形囚禁的凝聚体呈类六边形的基态密度分布,当磁场强度超过某一临界值时,凝聚体将崩塌;在强相互作用情况下,半量子涡旋出现在凝聚体中,且被六极子磁场钉在方位角Ф=nπ/3的径向位置,涡旋的旋转方向取决于径向磁场的方向。     

自旋轨道耦合诱导的调制不稳定性

原子玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的调制稳定性决定了凝聚体的超流属性,是超冷原子物理研究的重要内容。在由拉曼光形成的自旋轨道耦合的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中,存在4种不同的零动量本征态,由于自旋轨道耦合的存在,其中两种态载有流,另两种态不载流。通过对它们进行调制稳定性分析,发现无论在什么参数空间,这4种态都是调制不稳定的,即自旋轨道耦合总是能够诱导出调制不稳定性。这些态的动力学演化揭示调制不稳定性能够产生复杂的图案。     

F-P腔内自旋轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的色散研究

计算分析了处于单模Fabry-Pérot腔内的无相互作用玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体在引入自旋轨道耦合作用下的色散关系. F-P腔为冷原子系统提供了量子化的光晶格,利用紧束缚近似和平均场近似进行二次量子化,选取合适的腔参数得到单原子缀饰态能级的具体表达式.两束弱的Raman激光和外加磁场作用于玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体,实现了有效的自旋轨道耦合,提供了一个人工规范势,使玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中产生了沿腔轴方向一维的高度可控的狄拉克点.     

F-P腔内自旋轨道耦合玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的色散研究

计算分析了处于单模Fabry-Pérot腔内的无相互作用玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体在引入自旋轨道耦合作用下的色散关系.F-P腔为冷原子系统提供了量子化的光晶格,利用紧束缚近似和平均场近似进行二次量子化,选取合适的腔参数得到单原子缀饰态能级的具体表达式.两束弱的Raman激光和外加磁场作用于玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体,实现了有效的自旋轨道耦合,提供了一个人工规范势,使玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中产生了沿腔轴方向一维的高度可控的狄拉克点.     

旋量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体拓扑性质的研究进展

实现玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的原子大多具备内部自旋自由度,在光势阱下原子内部自旋被解冻,从而使原子可以凝聚到各个超精细量子态上,形成旋量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体.灵活的自旋自由度成为体系相关的动力学变量,可以使体系出现新奇的拓扑量子态,如自旋畴壁、涡旋、磁单极子、斯格明子等.本文综述了旋量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的实验和理论研究,旋量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中拓扑缺陷的种类,以及两分量、三分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中拓扑缺陷的研究进展.     

梯度磁场中自旋-轨道耦合旋转两分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态研究

利用准二维Gross-Pitaevskii方程,研究了在梯度磁场中具有自旋-轨道耦合的旋转两分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构.探索了自旋-轨道耦合作用和梯度磁场对基态的影响.结果发现,在梯度磁场下,随着自旋-轨道耦合强度增大,基态结构由skyrmion格子逐渐过渡为skyrmion列.对于弱自旋-轨道耦合和小旋转频率情况,增大磁场梯度强度可导致基态由平面波相转变为half-skyrmion;对于强自旋-轨道耦合和大旋转频率情况,梯度磁场可诱导hidden涡旋的产生.梯度磁场、自旋-轨道耦合和旋转作为体系的调控参数,可用于控制不同基态相间的转化.     

偶极相互作用对自旋轨道耦合自旋-1凝聚体中磁畴分布的影响

研究准一维简谐势阱中存在自旋轨道耦合（SOC）的自旋-1偶极玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体,数值求解旋量Gross-Pitaevskii方程,给出磁畴的分布。计算结果表明：磁畴结构与偶极-偶极相互作用（DDIs）密切相关,随着自旋轨道耦合强度和磁化强度的增强,原来的空间对称分布被破坏,随之出现新的分布模式。     

简谐+四次势中自旋轨道耦合旋转玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构

研究了囚禁于简谐+四次势中具有自旋轨道耦合相互作用的旋转玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构; 考虑了自旋轨道耦合相互作用和旋转对基态结构的影响; 结果发现在自旋轨道耦合相互作用与旋转共同作用下, 系统呈现出丰富且新奇的基态结构, 如条形、双排和蛇皮花斑状等.     

玻色凝聚的原子自旋链中的非线性自旋波

研究了囚禁在光晶格中的旋量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)形成的原子自旋链中的相干非线性自旋波的激发与调制不稳定性.通过解析分析，得到了调制不稳定性的一般判据以及其对原子自旋的长程耦合的依赖关系.在蓝失谐和红失谐光晶格的情况下，分别具体分析了长程非线性自旋耦合，包括光诱导的和静磁诱导的偶极-偶极相互作用对相干自旋波调制不稳定性的影响.     

Spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate under rotation

We examine the combined effects of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and rotation on trapped spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. The nature of single particle states is thoroughly examined in the Landau level basis and is shown to support the formation of a half-quantum vortex. In the presence of weak s-wave interactions, the ground state at strong SO coupling develops ringlike structures with domains whose number shows step behavior with increasing rotation. For the fast rotation case, the vortex pattern favors a triangular lattice, accompanied by density depletion in the central region and a weakened Skyrmionic character as the SO coupling is enhanced. Giant vortex formation is facilitated when SO coupling and rotation are both strong.     

Vortices in a Rotating Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate under Extreme Elongation in a Harmonic Plus Quartic Trap

We consider the ground-state properties of a rotating spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate under extreme elongation in a harmonic plus quartic potential. The effects of spin-orbit coupling and rotation on the ground-state vortex structures are investigated. In the absence of spin-orbit coupling, new nucleated vortices gradually form vortex lines and annular vortex structures with the increase of the rotation frequency. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling, part of the vortices arrange in a line and form a stable vortex chain, and the remanent vortices coexist in pairs aside such vortex chain. More specially, the remanent vortices of each component repel each other and form vortex pair for isotropic spin-orbit coupling, while attract each other and locate in the same positions for anisotropic spin-orbit coupling.     

Manipulating vortices in F=2 Bose-Einstein condensates through magnetic field and spin-orbit coupling

We investigate the vortex structures excited by Ioffe-Pritchard magnetic field and Dresselhaus-type spin-orbit coupling in F=2 ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensates. In the weakly interatomic interacting regime, an external magnetic field can generate a polar-core vortex in which the canonical particle current is zero. With the combined effect of spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field, the ground state experiences a transition from polar-core vortex to Mermin-Ho vortex, in which the canonical particle current is anticlockwise. For fixed spin-orbit coupling strengths, the evolution of phase winding, magnetization, and degree of phase separation with magnetic field are studied. Additionally, with further increasing spin-orbit coupling strength, the condensate exhibits symmetrical density domains separated by radial vortex arrays. Our work paves the way to explore exotic topological excitations in high-spin systems.     

Bessel型光晶格中自旋-轨道耦合极化激元凝聚的稳态结构

Bessel型光晶格是一种非空间周期性的柱对称的光晶格势场,其兼具无限深势阱和环状势阱的特征,在0阶Bessel光晶格势场中央形成深势阱,而在非0阶Beseel光晶格势场中能形成具有中央势垒的环状浅势阱.极化激元是一种半光半物质的准粒子,该准粒子甚至可以在室温条件下发生玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚相变,形成极化激元凝聚.另外,通过极化激元能级的腔诱导TE-TM分裂能在极化激元凝聚中实现足够强的自旋-轨道耦合作用.极化激元凝聚能在室温条件下实现,在其中又存在自旋-轨道耦合作用,其为量子物理的研究提供了全新的平台.本文把Bessel光晶格势场引入到极化激元凝聚系统,研究了存在自旋-轨道耦合作用下的旋量双组分极化激元凝聚系统的稳态结构.通过求解Gross-Pitaevskii方程给出了极化激元凝聚系统在实验室坐标系和旋转坐标系中极化激元凝聚系统的稳态结构,由于Bessel势场的引入,使得稳态结构更具有多样性.给出了实验室坐标系中在中央深势阱中存在的基础型高斯孤立子、多极孤立子和在环状浅势阱中存在环状孤立子和多极孤立子的稳态结构;给出了旋转坐标系中存在的涡旋环状孤立子,及其由于自旋-轨道相互作用引起的组...     

Ground states, solitons and spin textures in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates

We present an overview of our recent theoretical studies on the quantum phenomena of the spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates, including the phase diagram, soliton solutions and the formation of the topological spin textures. A brief exploration of the effects of spin-orbit coupling on the ground-state properties is given. We put forward proposals by using the transmission spectra of an optical cavity to probe the quantum ground states: the ferromagnetic and polar phases. Quasi-one-dimension solitons and ring dark solitons are studied. It is predicted that characteristics of the magnetic solitons in optical lattice can be tuned by controlling the long-range light-induced and static magnetic dipoledipole interactions; solutions of single-component magnetic and single-, two-, three-components polar solitons are found; ring dark solitons in spin-1 condensates are predicted to live longer lifetimes than that in their scalar counterparts. In the formation of spin textures, we have considered the theoretical model of a rapidly quenched and fast rotating trapped spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate, whose dynamics can be studied by solving the stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equations. Spontaneous generation of nontrivial topological defects, such as the hexagonal lattice skyrmions and square lattice of half-quantized vortices was predicted. In particular, crystallization of merons (half skyrmions) can be generated in the presence of spin-orbit coupling.     

Spontaneous Formation of Antiferromagnetic Vortex Lattice in a Fast Rotating BEC with Dipole Interactions

When a Bose-Einstein condensate is set to rotate,superfluid vortices will be formed,which finally condense into a vortex lattice as the rotation frequency further increases.We show that the dipole-dipole interactions renormalize the short-range interaction strength and result in a distinction between interactions of parallel-polarized atoms and interactions of antiparallel-polarized atoms.This effect may lead to a spontaneous breakdown of the rapidly rotating Bose condensate into a novel anti-ferromagnetic-like vortex lattice.The upward-polarized Bose condensate forms a vortex lattice,which is staggered against a downward-polarized vortex lattice.A phase diagram related to the coupling strength is obtained.     

Spin-orbit-coupled dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

We propose an experimental scheme to create spin-orbit coupling in spin-3 Cr atoms using Raman processes. By employing the linear Zeeman effect and optical Stark shift, two spin states within the ground electronic manifold are selected, which results in a pseudospin-1/2 model. We further study the ground state structures of a spin-orbit-coupled Cr condensate. We show that, in addition to the stripe structures induced by the spin-orbit coupling, the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction gives rise to the vortex phase, in which a spontaneous spin vortex is formed.     

Anderson localization of a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in disorder potential

We present numerical results of a one-dimensional spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate expanding in a speckle disorder potential by employing the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Localization properties of a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in zero-momentum phase, magnetic phase and stripe phase are studied. It is found that the localizing behavior in the zero-momentum phase is similar to the normal Bose-Einstein condensate. Moreover, in both magnetic phase and stripe phase, the localization length changes non-monotonically as the fitting interval increases. In magnetic phases, the Bose-Einstein condensate will experience spin relaxation in disorder potential.     

具有面内四极磁场的旋转玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构研究

通过虚时演化方法研究了具有面内四极磁场的旋转玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态结构.结果发现:面内四极磁场和旋转双重作用可导致中央Mermin-Ho涡旋的产生;随着磁场梯度增强,Mermin-Ho涡旋周围环绕的涡旋趋向对称化排布;在四极磁场下,密度相互作用和自旋交换相互作用作为体系的调控参数,可以控制Mermin-Ho涡旋周围的涡旋数目;该体系自旋结构中存在双曲型meron和half-skyrmion两种拓扑结构.