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Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180403 (2008) [4 pages]

Knots in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

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Yuki Kawaguchi1,*, Muneto Nitta2, and Masahito Ueda1,3,*
1Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
2Department of Physics, Keio University, Hiyoshi, Yokohama, Kanagawa 223-8521, Japan
3ERATO Macroscopic Quantum Control Project, JST, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

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Received 14 February 2008; published 7 May 2008

We show that knots of spin textures can be created in the polar phase of a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate, and discuss experimental schemes for their generation and probe, together with their lifetime.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.180403
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.180403
PACS:
05.30.Jp, 03.75.Lm, 03.75.Mn, 11.27.+d

*Present address: Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

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Erratum: Yuki Kawaguchi, Muneto Nitta, and Masahito Ueda, Erratum: Knots in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180403 (2008)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 029902 (2008).

 
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