Abstract
We systematically investigate the ground-state and elementary excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate within a synthetic vector potential, which is induced by the many-body effects and atom-light coupling. For a sufficiently strong spin-dependent interaction, we find the condensate undergoes a Stoner-type ferromagnetic transition through the self-consistent coupling with the vector potential. For a weak interaction, the critical velocity of a supercurrent is anisotropic due to the density fluctuations affecting the gauge field. We further analytically demonstrate the topological ground state with a coreless vortex ring in a three-dimensional (3D) harmonic trap and a coreless vortex-antivortex pair in a two-dimensional (2D) trap. The circulating persistent current is measurable in the time-of-flight experiment or in the dipolar oscillation through the violation of the Kohn theorem.
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