Production of strongly bound 39K bright solitons
Atomic Physics
2017-01-03 v2 Quantum Gases
Abstract
We report on the production of 39 K matter-wave bright solitons, i.e., 1D matter-waves that propagate without dispersion thanks to attractive interactions. The volume of the soliton is studied as a function of the scattering length through three-body losses, revealing peak densities as high as . Our solitons, close to the collapse threshold, are strongly bound and will find applications in fundamental physics and atom interferometry.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.01560,
title = {Production of strongly bound 39K bright solitons},
author = {S Lepoutre and L Fouché and A Boissé and G Berthet and G Salomon and A Aspect and T Bourdel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.01560},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
in Physical Review A, American Physical Society, 2016