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Method for monopole creation in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

D. E. Chang

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0203556

Abstract

We present a method for creating a monopole in an antiferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate. The required phase engineering of the multicomponent condensate is achieved using light shifts, which depend on both the magnetic substate mF and polarization of the incident laser beam.

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