Normal-superfluid interaction dynamics in a spinor bose gas.

نویسندگان

  • J M McGuirk
  • D M Harber
  • H J Lewandowski
  • E A Cornell
چکیده

Coherent behavior of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates is studied in the presence of a significant uncondensed (normal) component. Normal-superfluid exchange scattering leads to near-perfect local alignment between the spin fields of the two components. We observe that, through this spin locking, spin-domain formation in the condensate is vastly accelerated as the spin populations in the condensate are entrained by large-amplitude spin waves in the normal component.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 91 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2003