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Compared with the scalar Bose-Einstein condensate, the spinor Bose-Einstein condensate, in which internal degrees of freedom are essentially free, has aroused the great interest in the study of topological excitations. In particular, the spinor Bose-Einstein condensate with rotation provides a new opportunity for studying novel quantum states including a coreless vortex and vortex lattice. To date, in the presence of rotation, a great many of studies on the topological excitations have focused on the Bose-Einstein condensate system with the uniform Zeeman field or without external magnetic field. However, the ground state structure of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of in-plane gradient-magnetic-field remains an open question. In this work, by using the imaginary-time propagation method, we study the ground state structure of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate with in-plane quadrupole field. We first examine the effect of in-plane quadrupole field on trapped spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. The numerical results show that Mermin-Ho vortex can be induced only by the cooperation between quadrupole field and rotation. When magnetic field gradient is increased, the vortices around Mermin-Ho vortex display the symmetrical arrangement. For an even larger magnetic field gradient strength, the system only presents the Mermin-Ho vortex because the in-plane quadrupole field can prevent the vortices around Mermin-Ho vortex from occurring. Next, we examine the effect of the rotation on trapped spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. A phase transition from a polar-core vortex to a Mermin-Ho vortex is found through applying a rotational potential, which is caused by the cooperation between the in-plane quadrupole field and the rotation. We further study the combined effects of spin exchange interaction and density-density interaction. The results confirm that in the presence of the quadrupole field both spin exchange interaction and density-density interaction, acting as controllable parameters, can control the number of the vortices around Mermin-Ho vortex. The corresponding number of the vortices shows step behavior with increasing the ratio between spin exchange interaction and density-density interaction, which behaves as hexagon, pentagon, square and triangle. It is found that two types of topology structures, i.e., the hyperbolic meron and half-skyrmion, can occur in the present system. These vortex structures can be realized via time-of-flight absorption imaging technique. Our results not only provide an opportunity to investigate the exotic vortex structures and the corresponding phase transitions in a controlled platform, but also lay the foundation for the study of topological defect subjected to gauge field and dipolar interaction in future.
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Keywords:
- rotating Bose-Einstein condensate /
- in-plane quadrupole field /
- spin-exchange interaction /
- spin texture
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