Modulational instability of spinor condensates
Date
2001
Authors
Robins, Nicholas
Zhang, W.
Ostrovskaya, Elena
Kivshar, Yuri
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American Physical Society
Abstract
The possibility of modulational instability (MI) of the ferromagnetic ground state of the spinor Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) was predicted analytically and demonstrated numerically. It was found that the ferromagnetic spinor BEC is an ideal candidate for the first experimental observation of MI, spin domain fragmentation, and spatiotemporal chaotic dynamics of matter waves.
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Keywords: Atoms; Birefringence; Computer simulation; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Four wave mixing; Ground state; Hamiltonians; Numerical analysis; Optical fibers; Optical Kerr effect; Perturbation techniques; Quantum theory; Atomic optics; Bose-Einstein condens
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Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
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