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Dynamics of kicked matter-wave solitons in an optical lattice

Other Condensed Matter 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We investigate effects of the application of a kick to one-dimensional matter-wave solitons in a self-attractive Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a optical lattice. The resulting soliton's dynamics is studied within the framework of the time-dependent nonpolynomial Schrodinger equation. The crossover from the pinning to quasi-free motion crucially depends on the size of the kick, strength of the self-attraction, and parameters of the optical lattice.

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@article{arxiv.0807.3432,
  title  = {Dynamics of kicked matter-wave solitons in an optical lattice},
  author = {A. Cetoli and L. Salasnich and B. A. Malomed and F. Toigo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3432},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, 6 figures, to be published in Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena; special issue on "Nonlinear Phenomena in Degenerate Quantum Gases"