Knots in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate
- 7 May 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 100 (18), 180403
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.100.180403
Abstract
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.Keywords
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