Knots in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate.
We show that knots of spin textures can be created in the polar phase of a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate, and discuss experimental schemes for their generation and probe, together with their lifetime.
Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan.
Yuki
Y
Kawaguchi
Muneto
M
Nitta
Masahito
M
Ueda