Matter-wave solitons supported by dissipation
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2009-11-11 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We show how novel types of long-lived self-localized matter waves can be constructed with Bose-Einstein condensates. The ingredients leading to such structures are a spatial phase generating a flux of atoms towards the condensate center and the dissipative mechanism provided by the inelastic three-body collisions in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. The outcome is an striking example of nonlinear structure supported by dissipation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nlin/0511036,
title = {Matter-wave solitons supported by dissipation},
author = {Adrian Alexandrescu and Victor M. Perez-Garcia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0511036},
year = {2009}
}