arXiv:0802.1968·v1·cond-mat.other
Knots in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate
Yuki Kawaguchi🇯🇵 · Muneto Nitta🇯🇵 · Masahito Ueda🇯🇵
Abstract
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.
Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures