Phys. Rev. A 81, 031603(R) (2010) [4 pages]

Laser-catalyzed spin-exchange process in a Bose-Einstein condensate

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H. Jing^1,2, Y. Jiang¹, Weiping Zhang², and P. Meystre³
¹Department of Physics, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, People’s Republic of China
²State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, People’s Republic of China
³B2 Institute and Department of Physics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA

Received 16 September 2009; published 8 March 2010

We show theoretically that it is possible to optically control collective spin-exchange processes in spinor Bose condensates through virtual photoassociation. The interplay between optically induced spin exchange and spin-dependent collisions provides a flexible tool for the control of atomic spin dynamics, including enhanced or inhibited quantum spin oscillations, the optically induced ferromagnetic-to-antiferromagnetic transition, and coherent matter-wave spin conversion.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.031603

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10.1103/PhysRevA.81.031603

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03.75.Pp, 42.50.-p, 03.70.+k

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Phys. Rev. A 81, 031603(R) (2010) [4 pages]

Laser-catalyzed spin-exchange process in a Bose-Einstein condensate