Collective excitations in a F=2 Bose-Einstein condensate

Abstract

We calculate the collective excitations in a homogeneous F=2 spinor condensate in the absence of the magnetic field and also in a strong magnetic field. Almost all the excitations for a zero magnetic field are found to have either the Bogoliubov form or the free-particle form. We relate our results for a strong magnetic field to the concept of fragmented condensates and note that some observable quantities such as the speed of sound for the cyclic state depend on the relative phase between the spinor amplitudes for the $M=\pm 2, 0$ atoms.