Exotic superfluidity in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
Exotic superfluidity in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
We study the superfluidity of a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by computing its Bogoliubov excitations, which are found to consist of two branches: one is gapless and phonon-like at long wavelength; the other is typically gapped. These excitations imply a superfluidity that has two new features: ({\it i}) due …