Coupled density-spin Bose-Einstein condensates dynamics and collapse in systems with quintic nonlinearity

TL;DR

This paper studies how spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting influence the dynamics and collapse of coupled density-spin Bose-Einstein condensates with quintic self-attraction, revealing critical parameters that control collapse behavior.

Contribution

It introduces the analysis of collapse suppression or induction in spin-orbit coupled BECs with quintic nonlinearity, highlighting the role of initial spin state and critical coupling strength.

Findings

Existence of a critical spin-orbit coupling strength affecting collapse

Collapse characterized by participation ratio of density rather than expectation values

Collapse behavior depends on initial spin state and other parameters

Abstract

We investigate the effects of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting on the coupled density-spin dynamics and collapse of the Bose-Einstein condensate driven by the quintic self-attraction in the same- and cross-spin channels. The characteristic feature of the collapse is the decrease in the width as given by the participation ratio of the density rather than by the expectation values of the coordinate. Qualitative arguments and numerical simulations reveal the existence of a critical spin-orbit coupling strength which either prohibits or leads to the collapse, and its dependence on other parameters, such as the condensates norm, spin-dependent nonlinear coupling, and the Zeeman splitting. The entire nonlinear dynamics critically depend on the initial spin sate.