Spin excitation spectra of spin–orbit coupled bosons in an optical lattice

Author： Ruo-Yan Li Liang He Qing Sun An-Chun Ji Guang-Shan Tian

E-ISSN： 1741-4199|24|5|56701-56709

ISSN： 1674-1056

Source： Chinese Physics B, Vol.24, Iss.5, 2015-05, pp. : 56701-56709

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Abstract

Spin-wave excitation plays important roles in the investigation of the magnetic phases. In this paper, we study the spin-wave excitation spectra of two-component Bose gases with spin–orbit coupling in a deep square optical lattice using the spin-wave theory. We find that, while the excitation spectrum of the vortex crystal phase is gapless with a linear dispersion in the vicinity of the minimum point, the spectra of the commensurate spiral spin phase and the skyrmion crystal phase are gapped. Significantly, the spin fluctuations strongly destabilize the classical ground state of the skyrmion phase with the appearance of an imaginary part in the eigenfrequencies of spin excitations. Such features of the spin excitation spectra provide further insights into the exotic spin phases.