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arXiv · 1907.12834

Spin-2 BEC spinor superfluid soliton-soliton scattering in one and two space dimensions

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Presented is a study of a spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by unitary quantum simulations of time-dependent soliton-soliton scattering. The quantum simulation method is based on a quantum lattice algorithm which is designed for implementation on a future digital quantum computer but is tested today using a parallel computing architecture based on graphical processing units (GPUs). We analytically solve the spin-2 BEC equations of motion, a nonlinear system of 5 coupled Gross-Pitiaevskii (GP) equations, in one- and two-spatial dimensions. In 1D there are 16 bright soliton and 16 dark soliton solutions. In 2D there are 3 dark soliton solutions Pade approximation solutions, for m_f=+/-2, m_f=+/-1 and m_f=0, corresponding to quantum vortices. We report on the implementation the unitary quantum lattice gas algorithm for spinor superfluid and establish its efficacy by validating the stability of the 1D and 2D energy eigenstate solutions of the spin-2 BEC Hamiltonian. Using the calibrated quantum lattice gas algorithm, the highly nonlinear physics in the nonintegrable regime of the spin-2 BEC is studied by performing soliton-soliton scattering experiments. The scattering of topological solitons produces breathers and complex quantum vortices characterized by local entanglement across multiple m_f-hyperfine states of the Zeeman manifold.

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Jasper Taylor, Steven Smith, Jeffrey Yepez. 2019-07-30. Spin-2 BEC spinor superfluid soliton-soliton scattering in one and two space dimensions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12834

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