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Dark-bright solitons in spinor polariton condensates under nonresonant pumping

Quantum Gases 2019-05-22 v1 Other Condensed Matter Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

Adopting a mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii description for a spinor polariton Bose-Einstein condensates under non-resonant pumping, we investigate the static and dynamical properties of dark-bright solitons. We derive analytically the equation of motion for the center of mass of the dark-bright soliton center, using the Hamiltonian approach. The resulting equation captures how the combination of the open-dissipative character and the spin degrees of freedom of a polariton Bose-Einstein condensate affects the properties of a dark-bright soliton, i.e. the dark-bright soliton relaxes by blending with the background at a finite time. In this case, we also determine the life time of the DB soliton. Further numerical solutions of the modified dissipative two-component Gross-Pitaevskii equations are in excellent agreement with the analytical results. In presence of the Langevin noise, we demonstrate that the DB solitons can still propagate for a long time, which is sufficient for their experimental observations within current facilities.

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@article{arxiv.1807.04401,
  title  = {Dark-bright solitons in spinor polariton condensates under nonresonant pumping},
  author = {Xingran Xu and Lei Chen and Zhidong Zhang and Zhaoxin Liang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04401},
  year   = {2019}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures