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We investigate the mean-field scattering dynamics of a quasi-one-dimensional Bose--Einstein condensate interacting with a Rosen--Morse potential. For specific potential and nonlinearity parameters, we derive analytically exact, degenerate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-06 Feilong Wang , Jinlin Fan , Ruolin Chai , Zhibin Zhao , Qiongtao Xie

The Bloch and dipole oscillations of a Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) in an optical superlattice is investigated. We show that the effective mass increases in an optical superlattice, which leads to localization of the BEC, in accordance…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aranya B Bhattacherjee , Monika Pietrzyk

In this communication we report on a peculiar property of barrier transmission that systems governed by the nonlinear Schroedinger equation share with the linear one: For unit transmission the potential can be divided at an arbitrary point…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-06 K. Rapedius , H. J. Korsch

We experimentally study the fluid flow induced by a broad, penetrable barrier moving through an elongated dilute gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate. The barrier is created by a laser beam swept through the condensate, and the resulting dipole…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Engels , C. Atherton

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

We consider dipole oscillations of a trapped dilute Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of a scattering potential consisting either in a localized defect or in an extended disordered potential. In both cases the breaking of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Albert , T. Paul , N. Pavloff , P. Leboeuf

The resonant formation of nonlinear coherent modes in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates is studied. These modes represent nonground-state Bose condensates. The methods of describing the spectrum of the nonlinear modes are discussed. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova , V. S. Bagnato

We have produced a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on an atom chip using only superconducting wires in a cryogenic environment. We observe the onset of condensation for 10^4 atoms at a temperature of 100 nK. This result opens the way for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Roux , A. Emmert , A. Lupascu , T. Nirrengarten , G. Nogues , M. Brune , J. -M. Raimond , S. Haroche

We investigate the phase diffusion of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined in the combined potential of a magnetic trap and a one-dimensional optical lattice. We show that the phase diffusion of the condensate in the whole optical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Hongwei Xiong , Shujuan Liu , Guoxiang Huang , Lei Wang

Motivated by the recent achievement of space-based Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with ultracold alkali-metal atoms under microgravity and by the proposal of bubble traps which confine atoms on a thin shell, we investigate the BEC…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-22 A. Tononi , L. Salasnich

Recently, effects of Feshbach resonances in atom-atom interactions were observed by varying the external magnetic field of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We point out that the quasi-bound molecules created in the intermediate…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-17 Eddy Timmermans , Paolo Tommasini , Robin Cote , Mahir Hussein , Arthur Kerman

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 compute the stationary profiles of a coherent beam of Bose condensed atoms propagating through a guide. Special emphasis is put on the effect of an obstacle present on the trajectory of the beam. The obstacle considered (such as a bend…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Leboeuf , N. Pavloff

Motivated by a recent experiment [L.Chomaz et al., Nature Physics 14, 442 (2018)], we perform numerical simulations of a dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) in a tubular confinement at T=0 within Density Functional Theory, where the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-10 Santo Maria Roccuzzo , Francesco Ancilotto

We investigate how Bose-Einstein condensates, whose initial state is either irrotational or contains a single vortex, scatter off a one-dimensional Gaussian potential barrier. We find that for low atom densities the vortex structure within…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. M. Martin , R. G. Scott , T. M. Fromhold

We have studied theoretically the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of two-dimensional excitons in a ring with small random width variation. We derive a nonlinear Gross-Pitaevkii equation (GPE) for such a condensate. Our numerical solution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. -R. Eric Yang , Q-Han Park , J. Yeo

Vector solitons are a type of solitary, or non-spreading wavepacket occurring in a nonlinear medium comprised of multiple components. As such, a variety of synthetic systems can be constructed to explore their properties, from nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-22 Xiao Chai , Di Lao , Kazuya Fujimoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Masahito Ueda , Chandra Raman

Experiments on ultra-cold attractive Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) have demonstrated that at low dimensions atomic clouds can form localized objects, propagating for long times without significant changes in their shapes and attributed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-07-11 Alexej I. Streltsov , Ofir. E. Alon , Lorenz S. Cederbaum

We demonstrate robust, stable, mobile, quasi-one-dimensional, dark-in-bright dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) soliton with a notch in the central plane formed due to dipolar interaction for repulsive contact interaction. At medium…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 S K Adhikari

We study coherent backscattering of a quasi-monochromatic laser by a dilute gas of cold two-level atoms. We consider the perturbative regime of weak intensities, where nonlinear effects arise from {\em inelastic} two-photon scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Wellens , B. Gremaud , D. Delande , C. Miniatura