We obtain analytically the static states and corresponding collective-excitation spectra of a quasi-onedimensional spin-1 condensate modulated by a long-wavelength optical lattice in the weak lattice limit. It is demo...We obtain analytically the static states and corresponding collective-excitation spectra of a quasi-onedimensional spin-1 condensate modulated by a long-wavelength optical lattice in the weak lattice limit. It is demonstrated that both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic condensates may exhibit dynamical instability, which agree with the results with numerical simulation. In the homogeneous limit, our resuRs reduce to the previous results for homogeneous spinor condensates, i.e., dynamical instability can occur only for ferromagnetic interaction and an antiferromagnetic condensate is always dynamically stable.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.11274095the Program of USTITSPHP under Grant No.13IRTSTHN016
文摘We obtain analytically the static states and corresponding collective-excitation spectra of a quasi-onedimensional spin-1 condensate modulated by a long-wavelength optical lattice in the weak lattice limit. It is demonstrated that both ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic condensates may exhibit dynamical instability, which agree with the results with numerical simulation. In the homogeneous limit, our resuRs reduce to the previous results for homogeneous spinor condensates, i.e., dynamical instability can occur only for ferromagnetic interaction and an antiferromagnetic condensate is always dynamically stable.
