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Dissociation of one-dimensional matter-wave breathers due to quantum many-body effects

Quantum Gases 2017-12-06 v2 Pattern Formation and Solitons Atomic Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We use the ab initio Bethe Ansatz dynamics to predict the dissociation of one-dimensional cold-atom breathers that are created by a quench from a fundamental soliton. We find that the dissociation is a robust quantum many-body effect, while in the mean-field (MF) limit the dissociation is forbidden by the integrability of the underlying nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. The analysis demonstrates the possibility to observe quantum many-body effects without leaving the MF range of experimental parameters. We find that the dissociation time is of the order of a few seconds for a typical atomic-soliton setting.

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@article{arxiv.1706.07114,
  title  = {Dissociation of one-dimensional matter-wave breathers due to quantum many-body effects},
  author = {Vladimir A. Yurovsky and Boris A. Malomed and Randall G. Hulet and Maxim Olshanii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.07114},
  year   = {2017}
}

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The final version, contains supplemental material, PRL (in press), see https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/71072YefTec1c16a44807625d0168f716b918fabb