Title
Ground States and Dynamics of Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates.
Abstract
We study analytically and asymptotically, as well as numerically, ground states and dynamics of two-component spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) modeled by the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations (CGPEs). In fact, due to the appearance of the spin-orbit (SO) coupling in the two-component BEC with a Raman coupling, the ground state structures and dynamical properties become very rich and complicated. For the ground states, we establish existence and nonexistence results under different parameter regimes and obtain their limiting behaviors and/or structures with different combinations of the SO and Raman coupling strengths. For the dynamics, we show that the motion of the center-of-mass is either nonperiodic or with different frequency than the trapping frequency when the external trapping potential is taken as harmonic and/or the initial data is chosen as a stationary state (e.g., ground state) with a shift, which is completely different from the case of a two-component BEC without the SO coupling, and obtain the semiclassical limit of the CGPEs in the linear case via the Wigner transform method. Efficient and accurate numerical methods are proposed for computing the ground states and dynamics, especially for the case of box potentials. Numerical results are reported to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the numerical methods and show the rich phenomenon in the SO-coupled BECs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1137/140979241
SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bose-Einstein condensate,spin-orbit coupling,coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations,ground state,dynamics,Raman coupling
Spin-½,Ground state,Coupling,Quantum electrodynamics,Quantum mechanics,Harmonic,Bose–Einstein condensate,Trapping,Spin–orbit interaction,Stationary state,Physics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
75
2
0036-1399
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.52
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weizhu Bao163895.92
Yongyong Cai28011.43