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Spinor Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic Spin-1 Condensate
Published
Author(s)
A T. Black, Eduardo Gomez, Lincoln Turner, Sebastian Jung, Paul D. Lett
Abstract
We observed coherent spin oscillations in an antiferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium. The variation of the spin oscillations with magnetic field shows a clear signature of nonlinearity, in agreement with theoretical predictions that also predict anharmonic oscillations near a critical magnetic field. Measurements of the magnetic phase diagram agree with predictions made in the approximation of a single spatial mode. The oscillation period yields the best measurement to date of the sodium spin-dependent interaction coefficient, determining the difference between the sodium spin-dependent s-wavescattering lengths.
Black, A.
, Gomez, E.
, Turner, L.
, Jung, S.
and Lett, P.
(2007),
Spinor Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic Spin-1 Condensate, Physical Review Letters
(Accessed September 24, 2023)