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Stability of matter-wave solitons in a density-dependent gauge theory

Quantum Gases 2019-02-13 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We consider the linear stability of chiral matter-wave solitons described by a density-dependent gauge theory. By studying the associated Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations both numerically and analytically, we find that the stability problem effectively reduces to that of the standard Gross-Pitaevskii equation, proving that the solitons are stable to linear perturbations. In addition, we formulate the stability problem in the framework of the Vakhitov-Kolokolov criterion and provide supplementary numerical simulations which illustrate the absence of instabilities when the soliton is initially perturbed.

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@article{arxiv.1809.11154,
  title  = {Stability of matter-wave solitons in a density-dependent gauge theory},
  author = {R. J. Dingwall and P. Öhberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.11154},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures. Comments are welcome