Rotating Dipolar Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates

TL;DR

This paper explores the complex phase diagrams of rotating spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates with magnetic dipole interactions, revealing diverse spin textures and topological defects, and discusses their potential experimental realization.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed phase diagrams and identifies novel spin textures and topological defects in rotating dipolar spin-1 BECs.

Findings

Discovery of vortex sheets and skyrmion lattices

Identification of higher order topological defects

Potential for experimental realization of complex spin textures

Abstract

We have computed phase diagrams for rotating spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates with long-range magnetic dipole-dipole interactions. Spin textures including vortex sheets, staggered half-quantum- and skyrmion vortex lattices and higher order topological defects have been found. These systems exhibit both superfluidity and magnetic crystalline ordering and they could be realized experimentally by imparting angular momentum in the condensate.