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Dirac monopoles and dipoles in ferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

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Article number043604
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>6/10/2003
<mark>Journal</mark>Physical review a
Issue number4
Volume68
Number of pages6
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We investigate a radial spin hedgehog, analogous to the Dirac monopole, in an optically trapped atomic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate. By joining together a monopole-antimonopole pair, we may form a vortex line with free ends. We numerically simulate the three-dimensional dynamics and imaginary time relaxation of these structures to nonsingular textures and show they can be observable for realistic experimental parameters.