Phase separation in a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate
Phase separation in a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate
We study a spin-orbit (SO)-coupled hyperfine spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a quasi-one-dimensional trap. For an SO-coupled BEC in a one-dimensional box, we show that in the absence of the Rabi term, any nonzero value of SO coupling will result in a phase separation among the components for a ferromagnetic …