Year: 2006
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: A gaseous Bose‐Einstein condensate (BEC) offers an ideal testing ground for studying symmetry breaking, because a trapped BEC system is in a mesoscopic regime, and situations exist under which symmetry breaking may or may not occur. Investigating this problem can explain why mean‐field theories have been so successful in elucidating gaseous BEC systems and when many‐body effects play a significant role. We substantiate these ideas in four distinct situations: namely, soliton formation in attractive BECs, vortex nucleation in rotating BECs, spontaneous magnetization in spinor BECs, and spin texture formation in dipolar BECs.
Source: AIP conference proceedings
DOI: 10.1063/1.2400646
Authors: Masahito Ueda, Yuki Kawaguchi, Hiroki Saito, Rina Kanamoto, Tatsuya Nakajima
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1660807376