{"id":175549,"date":"2023-11-07T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T16:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/from-supersolid-to-microemulsion-exploring-spin-orbit-coupled-bose-einstein-condensates"},"modified":"2023-11-07T10:11:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T16:11:34","slug":"from-supersolid-to-microemulsion-exploring-spin-orbit-coupled-bose-einstein-condensates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/from-supersolid-to-microemulsion-exploring-spin-orbit-coupled-bose-einstein-condensates","title":{"rendered":"From supersolid to microemulsion: Exploring spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-supersolid-to-microemulsion-exploring-spin-orbit-coupled-bose-einstein-condensates3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a new study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB) have reported the discovery of a spin microemulsion in two-dimensional systems of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, shedding light on a novel phase transition marked by the loss of superfluidity, complex pseudospin textures, and the emergence of topological defects.<\/p>\n<p>A Bose-Einstein (B-E) condensate is a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/state+of+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">state of matter<\/a> that occurs at <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/extremely+low+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">extremely low temperatures<\/a>, where bosons, such as photons, become indistinguishable and behave as a single quantum entity, forming a superfluid or superconducting state.<\/p>\n<p>B-E condensates can exhibit unique quantum properties, such as a spin microemulsion. When the internal spin states of atoms in a B-E condensate are coupled to their motion, a unique <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/phase\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">phase<\/a> called a spin microemulsion can emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a new study, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, (UCSB) have reported the discovery of a spin microemulsion in two-dimensional systems of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates, shedding light on a novel phase transition marked by the loss of superfluidity, complex pseudospin textures, and the emergence of topological defects. A Bose-Einstein (B-E) condensate is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}