Existence of small semi-vortex solutions for the cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger system with Rashba type Spin-Orbit coupling on $\mathbb{R}^2$

Abstract

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger system with Rashba type Spin-Orbit coupling (SOC) on $\mathbb{R}^2$, which is also called the Gross--Pitaevskii equation with SOC. The system describes SO-coupled spinor BEC in physics. In the literature of physics, the existence of small semi-vortex solutions and small ground state is known. In the present paper, we give their mathematical proofs by finding minimizers of the energy under small mass constraint.