Funding
EMP is funded through the Horizon2020 programme of the European Commission.
Selected Publications

Self trapping of magnon Bose-Einstein condensates in the ground-state and on excited levels: from harmonic to box-like confinement

S. Autti, Yu.M. Bunkov, V.B. Eltsov, P.J. Heikkinen, J.J. Hosio, P. Hunger, M. Krusius, G.E. Volovik

Long-lived coherent spin precession of 3He-B at low temperatures around 0.2Tc is a manifestation of Bose-Einstein condensation of spin-wave excitations or magnons in a magnetic trap which is formed by the order-parameter texture and can be manipulated experimentally. When the number of magnons increases, the orbital texture reorients under the influence of the spin-orbit interaction and the profile of the trap gradually changes from harmonic to a square well, with walls almost impenetrable to magnons. This is the first experimental example of Bose condensation in a box. By selective rf pumping the trap can be populated with a ground-state condensate or one at any of the excited energy levels. In the latter case the ground state is simultaneously populated by relaxation from the exited level, forming a system of two coexisting condensates.


Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 145303 (2012)

doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.145303