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We study the influence of a time-dependent potential on the motion of solitons in a quasi one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate by solving the corresponding Gross-Pitaevskii equation. For a suitable choice of the external potentials as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. E. Nistazakis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , N. Brouzakis , F. K. Diakonos , P. Schmelcher , J. Schmiedmayer

Motivated by recent experimental achievement in the work with Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), we consider bright matter-wave solitons, in the presence of a parabolic magnetic trap and a spatially periodic optical lattice (OL), in the…

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

Based only on the Galilean addition of velocities and the de Broglie relation, it is deduced that in a matter-wave interferometer with slow-speed particles, a moving segment of deltaL with a velocity V contributes deltaPhi =…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-10 Ruyong Wang , Yi Zheng , Aiping Yao

The polarisation Sagnac speedmeter interferometer has the potential to replace the Michelson interferometer as the instrumental basis for future generations of ground-based gravitational wave detectors. The quantum noise benefit of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 A. P Spencer , B. W Barr , A. S. Bell , J. Briggs , P. Dupej , S. H. Huttner , B. Sorazu , J. Wright , K. A. Strain

Recent atom interferometry (AI) experiments involving Bose--Einstein condensates (BECs) have been conducted under extreme conditions of volume and interrogation time. Numerical solution of the standard mean-field theory applied to these…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-25 S. Thomas , C. Sapp , C. Henry , A. Smith , C. A. Sackett , C. W. Clark , M. Edwards

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

The phase perturbation arising from spin-rotation coupling is developed as a natural extension of the celebrated Sagnac effect. Experimental evidence in support of this phase shift, however, has yet to be realized due to the exceptional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Bahram Mashhoon , Richard Neutze , Mark Hannam , Geoffrey E. Stedman

The dynamics of dark matter-wave solitons in elongated atomic condensates are discussed at finite temperatures. Simulations with the stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation reveal a noticeable, experimentally observable spread in individual…

We study the collisional dynamics of multiple dark solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined by a toroidal trap. We assume a tight enough confinement in the radial direction to prevent possible dissipative effects due to the presence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-02-14 H. M. Cataldo , D. M. Jezek

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

The ability to interferometrically detect inertial rotations via the Sagnac effect has been a strong stimulus for the development of atom interferometry because of the potential 10^{10} enhancement of the rotational phase shift in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Chris P. Search , John R. E. Toland , Marko Zivkovic

We study the dynamics of two-component vector solitons, namely, bright-bright (BB) solitons interacting with parity-time-($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric potentials. We employ direct numerical simulations to demonstrate the unidirectional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-12-14 M. O. D. Alotaibi

We investigate the dynamics of a dark-bright soliton in a harmonic potential using a mean-field approach via coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations appropriate to multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates. We use a modified perturbed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-09 Majed O. D. Alotaibi , Lincoln D. Carr

We analyze the existence and stability of bright, dark, and gap matter-wave solitons in optical superlattices. Then, using these properties, we show that (time-dependent) ``dynamical superlattices'' can be used to controllably place, guide,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-González , D. J. Frantzeskakis

The phase shift due to the Sagnac Effect, for relativistic matter beams counter-propagating in a rotating interferometer, is deduced on the bases of a a formal analogy with the the Aharonov-Bohm effect. A procedure outlined by Sakurai, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Guido Rizzi , Matteo Luca Ruggiero

We investigate the exact bright and dark solitary wave solutions of an effective one dimensional (1D) Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by assuming that the interaction energy is much less than the kinetic energy in the transverse direction.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-01-31 S. Rajendran , P. Muruganandam , M. Lakshmanan

We propose a scheme to generate solitons in arbitrary dimensions, in a matter-wave interferometer, without the need of quantum degeneracy. In our setting, solitons emerge by balancing the single-particle dispersion with engineered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Haoqing Zhang , Anjun Chu , Chengyi Luo , James K. Thompson , Ana Maria Rey

We report the experimental observation of discrete bright matter-wave solitons with attractive interaction in an optical lattice. Using an accordion lattice with adjustable spacing, we prepare a Bose-Einstein condensate of cesium atoms…

We propose a mechanism to use nonlinearity arising from inter-particle interactions to significantly enhance rotation sensitivity of matter-wave interferometers. The method relies on modifying Sagnac interferometers by introducing a weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-24 M. Kolár , T. Opatrný , Kunal K. Das

We consider the motion of a matter-wave bright soliton under the influence of a cloud of thermal particles. In the ideal one-dimensional system, the scattering process of the quasiparticles with the soliton is reflectionless, however, the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Subhasis Sinha , Alexander Yu. Cherny , Dmitry Kovrizhin , Joachim Brand