Quantized transport of solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates driven by spin-orbit coupling
arXiv:2603.16433 · doi:10.1103/wmyd-tnzv
Abstract
We demonstrate that linear and nonlinear Thouless pumping can be realized in two-component elongated Bose-Einstein condensates using helicoidal spin-orbit coupling that slides with respect to a static optical lattice, identical for both spinor components. Stable quantized transport is found for solitons in semi-infinite and finite gaps, within certain intervals of chemical potentials and numbers of atoms. In the semi-infinite gap, the transport is arrested for solitons with sufficiently large number of atoms. We elucidate the important role of Zeeman splitting in the control of quantized transport, which disappears when the longitudinal component of the Zeeman field is removed.
6 pages, 5 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. A
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