Stable knots in the trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
arXiv:1406.7056 · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/106/50005
Abstract
The knot of spin texture is studied within the two-component Bose-Einstein condensates which are described by the nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii equations. We start from the non-interacting equations including an axisymmetric harmonic trap to obtain an exact solution, which exhibits a non-trivial topological structure. The spin-texture is a knot with an integral Hopf invariant. The stability of the knot is verified by numerically evolving the nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii equations along imaginary time.
4 pages, 5 figures
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