Cooling into the Spin-Nematic State for a Spin-1 Bose gase in an optical lattice

Abstract

The possibility of adiabatically cooling a spin-1 polar Bose gas to a spin-nematic phase is theoretically discussed. The relation between the order parameter of the final spin-nematic phase and the starting temperature of the spinor Bose gas is obtained both using the mean-field approach for the high temperature and spin-wave approach for the low temperature. We find that there exists a good possibility to reach the spin-nematic ordering starting with spinor antiferromagnetic Bose gases.

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