Exotic superfluidity in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

Details Exotic superfluidity in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates Exotic superfluidity in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

2011-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/1109.5811v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

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We study the superfluidity of a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by computing its Bogoliubov excitations, which are found to consist of two branches: one is gapless and phonon-like at long wavelength; the other is typically gapped. These excitations imply a superfluidity that has two new features: ({\it i}) due to the absence of the Galilean invariance, one can no longer define the critical velocity of superfluidity independent of the reference frame; ({\it ii}) the superfluidity depends not only on whether the speed of the BEC exceeds a critical value, but also on {\it cross helicity} that is defined as the direction of the cross product of the spin and the kinetic momentum of the BEC.

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