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Phys Rev Lett. 2018 Jun 01;120(22):223602. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.223602.

Formation of a Spin Texture in a Quantum Gas Coupled to a Cavity.

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M Landini, N Dogra, K Kroeger, L Hruby, T Donner, T Esslinger

Affiliations

  1. Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

PMID: 29906155 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.223602

Abstract

We observe cavity mediated spin-dependent interactions in an off-resonantly driven multilevel atomic Bose-Einstein condensate that is strongly coupled to an optical cavity. Applying a driving field with adjustable polarization, we identify the roles of the scalar and the vectorial components of the atomic polarizability tensor for single and multicomponent condensates. Beyond a critical strength of the vectorial coupling, we infer the formation of a spin texture in a condensate of two internal states from the analysis of the cavity output field. Our work provides perspectives for global dynamical gauge fields and self-consistently spin-orbit coupled gases.

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