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Motivated by recent proposals of ``collisionally inhomogeneous'' Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), which have a spatially modulated scattering length, we study the existence and stability properties of bright and dark matter-wave solitons…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Rodrigues , P. G. Kevrekidis , Mason A. Porter , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. Schmelcher , A. R. Bishop

A superfluid flow beyond a critical momentum in an optical lattice decays drastically by the interplay between nonlinearity due to the interparticle interactions in Bose-Einstein condensate and periodicity of the lattice; this instability…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-17 Rui Asaoka , Hiroki Tsuchiura , Makoto Yamashita , Yuta Toga

This study investigates the emergence of chaotic dynamics in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subjected to both alternating (AC) and constant (DC) components of the interaction strength, modeled through the scattering length. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 C. Selvaraju , S. Sabari , O. T. Lekeufack , F. Kenmogne , N. Athavan

By means of analytical and numerical methods, we address the modulational instability (MI) in chiral condensates governed by the Gross-Pitaevskiiequation including the current nonlinearity. The analysis shows that this nonlinearity partly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-03-24 Ishfaq Ahmad Bhat , S. Sivaprakasam , Boris A. Malomed

We consider a system of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations describing a binary quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with intrinsic time-dependent attractive interactions, placed in a time-dependent expulsive parabolic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-02 R. Radha , P. S. Vinayagam , J. B. Sudharsan , Wu-Ming Liu , Boris A. Malomed

Quasi one dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in elongated traps exhibit significant phase fluctuations even at very low temperatures. We present recent experimental results on the dynamic transformation of phase fluctuations into…

We consider a Gross-Pitaevskii model of BEC with non-local interactions of range of the order of the s-wave scattering length. With this model, we study the density modulated phase in 1D and 2D, which are solutions of this modified model…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-17 Abhijit Pendse , A. Bhattacharyay

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

We study the structure, stability, and dynamics of dark solitary waves in parabolically trapped, collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with spatially periodic variations of the scattering length. This collisional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-03-04 Chang Wang , Kody J. H. Law , Panayotis. G. Kevrekidis , Mason A. Porter

We model the nonlinear behaviour of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with repulsive spin-independent interactions and either ferromagnetic or anti-ferromagnetic (polar) spin-dependent interactions, loaded into a one-dimensional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Beata J. Dabrowska-Wuester , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Tristram J. Alexander , Yuri S. Kivshar

This work deals with matter-wave bright soliton molecules in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates described by three-component Gross-Pitaevskii equations with non-autonomous nonlinearities that can be tuned by Feshbach resonance management.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-16 K. Sakkaravarthi , R. Babu Mareeswaran , T. Kanna

Solitons are striking manifestations of nonlinearity, encountered in diverse physical systems such as water waves, nonlinear optics, and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). In BECs, dark solitons emerge as exact stationary solutions of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-21 Umut Tanyeri , Mehmet Atakan Gürkan , Ahmet Keleş , Mehmet Özgür Oktel

The intrinsic nonlinearity is the most remarkable characteristic of the Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) systems. Many studies have been done on atomic BECs with time- and space- modulated nonlinearities, while there is few work considering…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-24 Yu-Qin Yao , Ji Li , Wei Han , Deng-Shan Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

We investigate the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate held in an optical lattice under the influence of a strong periodic driving potential. Studying the mean-field version of the Bose-Hubbard model reveals that the condensate becomes…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-06-08 C. E. Creffield

We predict a dynamical classical superfluid-insulator transition in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a combined optical and axially-symmetric harmonic potentials initiated by a periodic modulation of the radial trapping…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Sadhan K. Adhikari

We consider several effects of the matter wave dynamics which can be observed in Bose-Einstein condensates embedded into optical lattices. For low-density condensates we derive approximate evolution equations, the form of which depends on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 V. A. Brazhnyi , V. V. Konotop

The dynamics of matter waves in the atomic to molecular condensate transition with a time-modulated atomic scattering length is investigated. Both the cases of rapid and slow modulations are studied. In the case of rapid modulations, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-27 F Kh Abdullaev , M Ogren , J S Yuldashev

We analyze the effects of sequences of standing wave pulses on a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Experimental observations are in good agreement with a numerical simulation based on the band structure theory in the optical lattice. We also…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 Wei Xiong , Xuguang Yue , Zhongkai Wang , Xiaoji Zhou , Xuzong Chen

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined in a one-dimensional lattice under the effect of an external homogeneous field is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Here we prove that such an equation can be reduced, in the semiclassical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Andrea Sacchetti

We study the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one dimensional optical lattice in the limit of weak atom-atom interactions. Numerically we find that a BEC may develop a pulsating instability in which atoms nearly…

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