https://doi.org/10.1140/epjs/s11734-025-01857-9
Regular Article
Stationary states of Rydberg-dressed Bose gas with anisotropic SU(3) spin–orbit coupling
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School of Physics and Information Science, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, 710021, Xi’an, China
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Key Laboratory of Time Reference and Applications, National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 710600, Xi’an, China
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Received:
6
April
2025
Accepted:
8
August
2025
Published online:
22
August
2025
Abstract
We consider a Rydberg-dressed Bose gas with SU(3) spin–orbit coupling confined in a harmonic trapping potential, characterized by anisotropic SU(3) spin–orbit coupling and isotropic nonlocal Rydberg interactions. Our results show that depending on the ratio between the strength of spin–orbit coupling along x- and y-direction, the system exhibits a variety of ground state phases, such as plane-wave phase, modified stripe phase, lattice phase and so on. More interestingly, it is found that phase transition between such different ground-state phases can be induced by varying the ratio between the strength of SU(3) spin–orbit coupling along different directions. Our results provide a scenario of manipulating different phases of a Rydberg-dressed Bose gas by varying the degree of anisotropy of the spin–orbit coupling, instead of using the conventional approach of changing the strength of nonlocal Rydberg interaction.
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