Spin waves in a Bose-Einstein--condensed atomic spin chain.
The spin dynamics of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice is studied. The condensates at each lattice site behave like spin magnets that can interact with each other through both the light-induced dipole-dipole interaction and the static magnetic dipole-dipole interaction. We show how these site-to-site dipolar interactions can distort the ground-state spin orientations and lead to the excitation of spin waves. The dispersion relation of the spin waves is studied and possible detection schemes are proposed.
Zhang
Weiping
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Optical Sciences Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
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