Friday, August 3, 2012

1208.0381 (Shohei Watabe et al.)

Excitation Transport through a Domain Wall in a Bose-Einstein Condensate    [PDF]

Shohei Watabe, Yusuke Kato, Yoji Ohashi
We investigate the tunneling properties of collective excitations through a domain wall in the ferromagnetic phase of a spin-1 spinor Bose--Einstein condensate. Within the mean-field theory at T=0, we show that the transverse spin wave undergoes perfect reflection in the low-energy limit. This reflection property differs considerably from that of a domain wall in a Heisenberg ferromagnet where spin-wave excitations exhibit perfect transmission at arbitrary energy. When the Bogoliubov mode is scattered from this domain wall soliton, the transmission and reflection coefficients exhibit pronounced non-monotonicity. In particular, we find perfect reflection of the Bogoliubov mode at energies where bound states appear. This is in stark contrast to the perfect transmission of the Bogoliubov mode with arbitrary energy through a dark soliton in a scalar Bose--Einstein condensate.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0381

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