Method for monopole creation in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
arXiv:cond-mat/0203556 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.66.025601
Abstract
We present a method for creating a monopole in an antiferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate. The required phase engineering of the multicomponent condensate is achieved using light shifts, which depend on both the magnetic substate m_F and polarization of the incident laser beam.
5 pages, 2 figures; v2: change of title, reference added to section 2