Dynamics of matter-wave solitons in a ratchet potential
Abstract
We study the dynamics of bright solitons formed in a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive atomic interactions perturbed by a weak bichromatic optical lattice potential. The lattice depth is a biperiodic function of time with a zero mean, which realises a flashing ratchet for matter-wave solitons. The average velocity of a soliton and the directed soliton current induced by the ratchet depend on the number of atoms in the soliton. We employ this feature to study collisions between ratchet-driven solitons and find that soliton transport can be induced through their interactions. In the regime when matter-wave solitons are narrow compared to the lattice period the ratchet dynamics is well described by the effective Hamiltonian theory.
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@article{arxiv.0802.0085,
title = {Dynamics of matter-wave solitons in a ratchet potential},
author = {Dario Poletti and Tristram J. Alexander and Elena A. Ostrovskaya and Baowen Li and Yuri S. Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0085},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 5 figures