Creation of skyrmions in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
Creation of skyrmions in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate
Summary form only given. The recent experimental success in all-optical trapping of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) opens the prospect of studies into the internal structure of spinor BECs. While in magnetically trapped BECs only one internal degree-of-freedom can be manipulated, an optical confinement allows an entanglement between the center-of-mass …