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Creation of a monopole in a spinor condensate
J-P Martikainen1, A Collin, K-A Suominen
1Helsinki Institute of Physics, PL 64, FIN-00014 Helsingin yliopisto, Finland.
Physical Review Letters
|February 28, 2002
Abstract:
We propose a method to create a monopole structure in a multicomponent condensate by applying the basic methods used to create vortices and solitons experimentally in single-component condensates. We also show that by using a two-component structure for a monopole, we can avoid many problems related to the previously suggested three-component monopole. We discuss the observation and dynamics of such a monopole structure, and note that the dynamics of the two-component monopole differs from the dynamics of the three-component monopole.