Dynamical spin-density waves in a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate

Yan Li,1,2 Chunlei Qu,2 Yongsheng Zhang,3,4,2 and Chuanwei Zhang2,* 1Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China 2Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75080, USA 3Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China 4Synergetic Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China (Received 5 March 2015; published 31 July 2015)