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Collapse of triaxial bright solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

Quantum Gases 2015-05-14 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We study triaxial bright solitons made of attractive Bose-condensed atoms characterized by the absence of confinement in the longitudinal axial direction but trapped by an anisotropic harmonic potential in the transverse plane. By numerically solving the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation we investigate the effect of the transverse trap anisotropy on the critical interaction strength above which there is the collapse of the condensate. The comparison with previous predictions [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 66}, 043619 (2002)] shows significant differences for large anisotropies.

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@article{arxiv.0910.0035,
  title  = {Collapse of triaxial bright solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates},
  author = {G. Mazzarella and L. Salasnich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0035},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted for the publication in Phys. Lett. A