Properties of spin–orbit-coupled Bose–Einstein condensates

Y Zhang, ME Mossman, T Busch, P Engels, C Zhang - Frontiers of Physics, 2016 - Springer
The experimental and theoretical research of spin–orbit-coupled ultracold atomic gases has
advanced and expanded rapidly in recent years. Here, we review some of the progress that …

Solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates with helicoidal spin-orbit coupling

YV Kartashov, VV Konotop - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
We report on the existence and stability of freely moving solitons in a spatially
inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate with helicoidal spin-orbit (SO) coupling. In spite …

Stable multiring and rotating solitons in two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with a radially periodic potential

YV Kartashov, DA Zezyulin - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
We consider two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a
radially periodic potential. The system supports different types of stable self-sustained states …

Vector gap solitons of spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in honeycomb optical lattices

H Meng, J Wang, X Fan, Q Wang, K Shao, Y Zhao… - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
The combination of the two hot topics of spin-orbit coupling and honeycomb lattices leads to
the appearance of fascinating issues. In this paper, we investigate the existence and stability …

Motion of solitons in one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

L Wen, Q Sun, Y Chen, DS Wang, J Hu, H Chen… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
Solitons play a fundamental role in the dynamics of nonlinear excitations. Here we explore
the motion of solitons in one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates subjected to a spin …

Wannier solitons in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices with a flat band

C Wang, Y Zhang, VV Konotop - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We investigate families of soliton solutions in a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate
embedded in an optical lattice, which bifurcate from the nearly flat lowest band. Unlike the …

Creating moving gap solitons in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

J Su, H Lyu, Y Chen, Y Zhang - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
A simple and efficient method to create gap solitons is proposed in a spin-orbit-coupled spin-
1 Bose-Einstein condensate. We find that a free expansion along the spin-orbit coupling …

Modulational instability in binary spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

IA Bhat, T Mithun, BA Malomed, K Porsezian - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We study modulation instability (MI) of flat states in two-component spin-orbit-coupled (SOC)
Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in the framework of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations …

Bright solitons in a two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate

Y Xu, Y Zhang, C Zhang - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We study a two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate with
repulsive contact interactions by both the variational method and the imaginary-time …

Fundamental and multipole gap solitons in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with parity-time-symmetric Zeeman lattices

X Zhu, D Xiang, L Zeng - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
Our results demonstrate that fundamental and tripole matter-wave gap solitons can be stable
in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (SOC-BECs) in one-dimensional (1D) …