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Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-01-02 Rong Du , Jian-Chong Xing , Bo Xiong , Jun-Hui Zheng , Tao Yang

A dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensate of a gas of bosonic particles with long-range dipole-dipole interactions in a harmonic trap is studied. Sufficient analytical criteria are found both for catastrophic collapse of Bose-Einstein…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Pavel M. Lushnikov

We present a model which predicts the temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic alkali gases and find excellent agreement with recent experimental observations. A system of bosons confined by a harmonic oscillator potential is not…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Klaus Kirsten , David J. Toms

We investigate the stability of dark solitons (DSs) in an effectively one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of the magnetic parabolic trap and an optical lattice (OL). The analysis is based on both the full…

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

We consider dark soliton in a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of a weak disorder potential. Deformation of the soliton shape is analyzed within the Bogoliubov approach and by employing expansion in eigenstates of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-23 Małgorzata Mochol , Marcin Płodzień , Krzysztof Sacha

In this paper we investigate the stability of a recently introduced Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which involves logarithmic interaction between atoms. The Gaussian variational approach is employed to derive equations of motion for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-14 B. Bouharia

Solitons are among the most distinguishing fundamental excitations in a wide range of non-linear systems such as water in narrow channels, high speed optical communication, molecular biology and astrophysics. Stabilized by a balance between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Becker , S. Stellmer , P. Soltan-Panahi , S. Dörscher , M. Baumert , E. -M. Richter , J. Kronjäger , K. Bongs , K. Sengstock

We study a two-level atom coupled to a Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that the rules governing the decoherence of mesoscopic superpositions involving different classical-like states of the condensate can be probed using this system. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 H. T. Ng , S. Bose

We report on the generation, subsequent oscillation and interaction of a pair of matter wave dark solitons. These are created by releasing a Bose-Einstein condensate from a double well potential into a harmonic trap in the crossover regime…

We theoretically analyze dissociation of a harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate of molecular dimers and examine how the spatial inhomogeneity of the molecular condensate affects the conversion dynamics and the atom-atom pair…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-13 Magnus Ogren , K. V. Kheruntsyan

Generation of dark solitons from large initial excitations and their evolution in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate trapped by a harmonic potential is studied analytically and numerically. In the case of a single deep soliton…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Brazhnyi , A. M. Kamchatnov , V. V. Konotop

We study spontaneous symmetry breaking in a system of two parallel quasi-one-dimensional traps, equipped with optical lattices (OLs) and filled with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The cores are linearly coupled by tunneling. Analysis of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Arthur Gubeskys , Boris A. Malomed

It is demonstrated that stable, standing dark solitons can be created in current dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensate experiments by the proper combination of phase and density engineering. Other combinations result in a widely controllable…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 L. D. Carr , J. Brand , S. Burger , A. Sanpera

The dynamics of matter-wave solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) is considerably affected by the presence of a surrounding thermal cloud and by condensate depletion during its evolution. We analyze these aspects of BEC soliton…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Buljan , M. Segev , A. Vardi

In this paper we study dark solitons in quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in presence of an anharmonic external potential. The theoretical model is based on the Mu\~noz-Mateo and Delgado (MMD) equation that describes…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-12 H. L. C. Couto , W. B. Cardoso

We study theoretically Bose-Einstein condensates with polarized dipolar interactions in anisotropic traps. We map the parameter space by varying the trap frequencies and dipolar interaction strengths and find an irregular-shaped region of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-28 A. D. Martin , P. B. Blakie

Gross-Pitaevskii equation for Bose-Einstein condensate confined in elongated cigar-shaped trap is reduced to an effective system of nonlinear equations depending on only one space coordinate along the trap axis. The radial distribution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Kamchatnov , V. S. Shchesnovich

We calculate the hydrodynamic solutions for a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate with long-range dipolar interactions in a rotating, elliptical harmonic trap, and analyse their dynamical stability. The static solutions and their regimes of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 R. M. W. van Bijnen , D. H. J. O'Dell , N. G. Parker , A. M. Martin

We theoretically investigate the scattering of bright solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate on narrow attractive potential wells. Reflection, transmission and trapping of an incident soliton are predicted to occur with remarkably abrupt…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-25 T. Ernst , J. Brand

We theoretically analyze quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates under the influence of a harmonic trap and a narrow potential defect that moves through the atomic cloud. Performing simulations on the mean field level, we explore a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-06 I. Hans , J. Stockhofe , P. Schmelcher