摘要
Three types of vortex-pair are identified in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates （BEC） of dif- ferent kinds of spin-orbit coupling. One type holds the two vortices in one component of the two- component condensates. Both the other two types hold a vortex in each component of the two- component condensates, and exhibit meron-pair textures that have either null or unit topological charge, respectively. The cores of the two vortices are connected by a string of the relative phase jump. These vortex pairs can be generated from a vortex-free wave packet by incorporating different non- Abelian gauge field into the BEC. When a Rabi coupling is introduced, the distance between the two cores is effectively controlled by the Rabi coupling strength and a transition of vortex configurations is observed.
Three types of vortex-pair are identified in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates （BEC） of dif- ferent kinds of spin-orbit coupling. One type holds the two vortices in one component of the two- component condensates. Both the other two types hold a vortex in each component of the two- component condensates, and exhibit meron-pair textures that have either null or unit topological charge, respectively. The cores of the two vortices are connected by a string of the relative phase jump. These vortex pairs can be generated from a vortex-free wave packet by incorporating different non- Abelian gauge field into the BEC. When a Rabi coupling is introduced, the distance between the two cores is effectively controlled by the Rabi coupling strength and a transition of vortex configurations is observed.
基金
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11604193 and 11774034, and the Natural Science Foundation for Young Sci- entists of Shanxi Province, China （Grant No. 201601D202012）.
