Spontaneous magnetization and structure formation in a spin-1 ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate
Spontaneous magnetization and structure formation in a spin-1 ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate
Motivated by recent experiments involving the nondestructive imaging of magnetization of a spin-1 $^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ Bose gas [J. M. Higbie et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 050401 (2005)], we address the question of how the spontaneous magnetization of a ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate occurs in a spin-conserving system. Due to competition between …