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TY - JOUR
T1 - Stable core symmetries and confined textures for a vortex line in a Spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
AU - Borgh, Magnus O.
AU - Nitta, Muneto
AU - Ruostekoski, Janne
PY - 2016/2/25
Y1 - 2016/2/25
N2 - We show how a singly quantized vortex can exhibit energetically stable defect cores with different symmetries in an atomic spin-1 polar Bose-Einstein condensate, and how a stable topologically nontrivial Skyrmion texture of lower dimensionality can be confined inside the core. The core isotropy and the stability of the confined texture are sensitive to Zeeman level shifts. The observed structures have analogies, respectively, in pressure-dependent symmetries of superfluid liquid He3 vortices and in the models of superconducting cosmic strings.
AB - We show how a singly quantized vortex can exhibit energetically stable defect cores with different symmetries in an atomic spin-1 polar Bose-Einstein condensate, and how a stable topologically nontrivial Skyrmion texture of lower dimensionality can be confined inside the core. The core isotropy and the stability of the confined texture are sensitive to Zeeman level shifts. The observed structures have analogies, respectively, in pressure-dependent symmetries of superfluid liquid He3 vortices and in the models of superconducting cosmic strings.
KW - bose-einstein condensates
KW - topological defects
KW - vortices
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.085301
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.085301
M3 - Journal article
VL - 116
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
SN - 1079-7114
IS - 8
M1 - 085301
ER -