Spin-Orbit Coupled Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
Spin-Orbit Coupled Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
An effective spin-orbit coupling can be generated in a cold atom system by engineering atom-light interactions. In this Letter we study spin-1/2 and spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and find that the condensate wave function will develop nontrivial structures. From numerical simulation we have identified two different phases. …