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Breaking of Chiral Symmetry and Spontaneous Rotation in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Hiroki Saito, Yuki Kawaguchi, Masahito Ueda

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0512216

Abstract

We show that a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate with ferromagnetic interactions spontaneously generates a topological spin texture, in which the m = 1 components of the magnetic sublevels form vortices with opposite circulations. This phenomenon originates from an interplay between ferromagnetic interactions and spin conservation.

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