Tuesday, January 22, 2013

1301.4770 (Hiroki Saito et al.)

Kibble-Zurek mechanism in a trapped ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein
condensate
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Hiroki Saito, Yuki Kawaguchi, Masahito Ueda
Spontaneous spin vortex formation in the magnetic phase transition of a trapped spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate is investigated using mean-field theory. In a harmonic trapping potential, an inhomogeneous atomic density leads to spatial variations of the critical point, magnetization time scale, and spin correlation length. The Kibble-Zurek phenomena are shown to emerge even in such inhomogeneous systems, when the quench of the quadratic Zeeman energy is fast enough. For slow quench, the magnetized region gradually expands from the center of the trap pushing out spin vortices, which hinders the Kibble-Zurek mechanism from occurring. A harmonic trap with a plug potential is also taken into account.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.4770

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