Spontaneous demagnetization of a dipolar spinor Bose gas in an ultralow magnetic field.
Spontaneous demagnetization of a dipolar spinor Bose gas in an ultralow magnetic field.
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.106.255303
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发表时间:
2011-03
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8.6
通讯作者:
B. Pasquiou;Etienne Mar'echal;G. Bismut;P. Pedri;L. Vernac;O. Gorceix;B. Laburthe-Tolra
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作者:
B. Pasquiou;Etienne Mar'echal;G. Bismut;P. Pedri;L. Vernac;O. Gorceix;B. Laburthe-Tolra
We study the spinor properties of S = 3 (52)Cr condensates, in which dipole-dipole interactions allow changes in magnetization. We observe a demagnetization of the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) when the magnetic field is quenched below a critical value corresponding to a phase transition between a ferromagnetic and a nonpolarized ground state, which occurs when spin-dependent contact interactions overwhelm the linear Zeeman effect. The critical field is increased when the density is raised by loading the BEC in a deep 2D optical lattice. The magnetization dynamics is set by dipole-dipole interactions.