Fluctuation driven phenomena in spinor Bose gas

In this thesis, we have investigated several fluctuation-driven phenomena in ultracold spinor Bose gases. In Bose-Einstein condensates of hyperfine spin-two (F=2) atoms, it is shown that zero-point quantum fluctuations completely lift the accidental continuous degeneracy in quantum spin nematic phas...

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Main Author: Song, Junliang
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23709