Feshbach resonance induced shock waves in Bose-Einstein condensates
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We propose a method for generating shock waves in Bose-Einstein condensates by rapidly increasing the value of the nonlinear coefficient using Feshbach resonances. We show that in a cigar-shaped condensate there exist primary (transverse) and secondary (longitudinal) shock waves. We analyze how the shocks are generated in multidimensional scenarios and describe the phenomenology associated with the phenomenon.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0311076,
title = {Feshbach resonance induced shock waves in Bose-Einstein condensates},
author = {Victor M. Perez-Garcia and Vladimir V. Konotop and Valeryi A. Brazhnyi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0311076},
year = {2009}
}