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The stability of nonlinear waves on curved surfaces is a problem of widespread interest across physics. Here, we establish the stability criteria for dark solitons on a spherical Bose-Einstein condensate. We demonstrate a sharp instability…

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We consider a one-dimensional model of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of periodic external potentials of opposite signs, acting on the two species. The interaction between the species is attractive, while…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Shi , K. J. H. Law P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed

We investigate dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in a complex external double-well potential that features a combined parity and time-reversal symmetry. On the basis of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation we study the effects of the long-ranged…

The existence of quantized vortices is a key feature of Bose-Einstein condensates. In equilibrium condensates only quantum vortices of unit topological charge are stable, due to the dynamical instabilities of multiply charged defects,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-19 Samuel N. Alperin , Natalia G. Berloff

We examine the spectral properties of single and multiple matter-wave dark solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates confined in parabolic traps, where the scattering length is periodically modulated. In addition to the large-density limit…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-24 P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis

Earlier work has shown that ring dark solitons in two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate are generically unstable. In this work, we propose a way of stabilizing the ring dark soliton via a radial Gaussian external potential. We…

Two-dimensional (2D) fundamental soliton-soliton pairs are investigated in binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interactions between atoms of the same type. Both attractive and repulsive interactions between atoms of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-03-16 A. I. Yakimenko , K. O. Shchebetovska , S. I. Vilchinskii , M. Weyrauch

We investigate the stability and nonlinear dynamics of dark-bright solitons in a one-dimensional binary Bose-Einstein condensate subjected to synthetic spin-orbit and Rabi couplings. In the absence of spin-orbit coupling, we map the coupled…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-07 K. Rajaswathi , R. Ravisankar , R. Radha , P. K. Mishra , P. Muruganandam

We study the ground state and the first three radially excited states of a self-gravitating Bose-Einstein- Condensate with respect to the influence of two external parameters, the total mass and the strength of interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-09 Kris Schroven , Meike List , Claus Lämmerzahl

The statics, stability and dynamical properties of dark-bright soliton pairs are investigated motivated by applications in a homogeneous system of two-component repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. One of the intra-species…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-02 G. C. Katsimiga , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. Prinari , G. Biondini , P. Schmelcher

We investigate the stability of an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in a moving 1D optical lattice in the presence of transverse confinement. By means of a Bogoliubov linear stability analysis we find that the system is dynamically…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Barontini , M. Modugno

Complex, localized stable solitons, characterized by a power law behaviour, are found for a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate near Feshbach resonance. Both dark and bright solitons can be excited in the experimentally allowed…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-08-28 Utpal Roy , Rajneesh Atre , C. Sudheesh , C. Nagaraja Kumar , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We study statically homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with spatially inhomogeneous interactions and outline an experimental realization of compensating linear and nonlinear potentials that can yield constant-density solutions. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-09-26 Scott Holmes , Mason A. Porter , Peter Krüger , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

The possibility of effectively inverting the sign of the dipole-dipole interaction, by fast rotation of the dipole polarization, is examined within a harmonically trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate. Our analysis is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 S. B. Prasad , T. Bland , B. C. Mulkerin , N. G. Parker , A. M. Martin

We examine the dynamics of a bright solitary wave in the presence of a repulsive or attractive localized ``impurity'' in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We study the generation and stability of a pair of steady states in the vicinity of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 G. Herring , P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , B. A. Malomed , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. R. Bishop

The dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in the lowest energy band of a one-dimensional optical lattice is generally disturbed by the presence of transversally excited resonant states. We propose an effective one-dimensional theory which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -P. Marzlin , V. I. Yukalov

Thanks to their immense purity and controllability, dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates are an exemplar for studying fundamental non-local nonlinear physics. Here we show that a family of fundamental nonlinear waves - the dark solitons - are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-05 T. Bland , K. Pawlowski , M. J. Edmonds , K. Rzazewski , N. G. Parker

In three-dimensional trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), described by the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii-Ginzburg equation, we study the effect of initial conditions on stability using a Gaussian variational approach and exact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Kh. Abdullaev , A. Gammal , Lauro Tomio , T. Frederico

It was recently found that excited states of semi-vortex and mixed-mode solitons are unstable in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with contact interactions. We demonstrate a possibility to stabilize such excited states in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-07 Chunqing Huang , Yuebo Ye , Shimei Liu , Hexiang He , Wei Pang , B. A. Malomed , Yongyao Li

Dark solitons carrying quantized phase information arouse great interest in different nonlinear systems. A dark soliton in 1D can be stabilized in microcavity polariton condensates as a confinement is imposed on it to prevent its decay.…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-25 Jinming Sun , Manna Chen , Stefan Schumacher , Wei Hu , Xuekai Ma