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We consider the stability and dynamics of multiple dark solitons in cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Our study is motivated by the fact that multiple matter-wave dark solitons may naturally form in such settings as per our…

Here we revisit the topic of stationary and propagating solitonic excitations in self-repulsive three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates by quantitatively comparing theoretical analysis and associated numerical computations with our…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-11-23 T. Mithun , A. R. Fritsch , I. B. Spielman , P. G. Kevrekidis

We present the experimental discovery of compound structures comprising solitons and vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We examine both their creation via soliton-vortex collisions and their subsequent development, which is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Naomi S. Ginsberg , Joachim Brand , Lene Vestergaard Hau

We present families of beating dark-dark solitons in spin-orbit (SO) coupled Bose-Einstein condensates. These families consist of solitons residing simultaneously in the two bands of the energy spectrum. The soliton components are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 V. Achilleos , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We present numerical simulations of the cavity optomechanical detection of persistent currents and bright solitons in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a ring trap. This work describes a novel technique that measures condensate…

We study composite solitons, consisting of domain walls and vortex lines attaching to the walls in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. When the total density of two components is homogeneous, the system can be mapped to the O(3)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-07-17 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Hiromitsu Takeuchi , Makoto Tsubota , Muneto Nitta

Even at zero temperature, there exist phase fluctuations associated with an array of Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We demonstrate a method to measure the phase fluctuations based on the Fourier…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 Bing Wang , Qiang Zhu , Hailong Zhou , Dezhi Xiong , Hongwei Xiong , Baolong Lu

We study the interaction of dark-bright solitons in two component Bose-Einstein condensates by suitably tailoring the trap potential, atomic scattering length and atom gain or loss. We show that the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-06-25 S. Rajendran , P. Muruganandam , M. Lakshmanan

We present a comprehensive analysis of the form and interaction of dipolar bright solitons across the full parameter space afforded by dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, revealing the rich behaviour introduced by the non-local nonlinearity.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-13 M. J. Edmonds , T. Bland , R. Doran , N. G. Parker

We propose a protocol for the simultaneous controlled creation of multiple concentric ring dark solitons in a toroidally trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. The decay of these solitons into a vortex-antivortex necklace shows revivals of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-23 L. A. Toikka , O. Kärki , K. -A. Suominen

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 dynamics of a filled massive vortex is studied numerically and analytically using a two-dimensional model of a two-component Bose--Einstein condensate trapped in a harmonic trap. This condensate exhibits phase separation. In the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-29 Victor P. Ruban

We study localized nonlinear excitations of a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with spin-orbit coupling in a deep optical lattice (OL). We use Wannier functions to derive a tight-binding model that includes the spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-30 Mario Salerno , Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev

A dark soliton oscillating in an elongated harmonically-confined atomic Bose-Einstein condensate continuously exchanges energy with the sound field. Periodic optical `paddles' are employed to controllably enhance the sound density and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 N. P. Proukakis , N. G. Parker , C. F. Barenghi , C. S. Adams

We report the numerical realization and demonstration of robustness of certain 2-component structures in Bose-Einstein Condensates in 2 and 3 spatial dimensions with non-trivial topological charge in one of the components. In particular, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 K. J. H. Law , P. G. Kevrekidis , Laurette S. Tuckerman

We demonstrate the existence of a new class of two-component vector solitary waves in which dispersion coefficients have of opposite signs. Stability is achieved by inclusion of an additional linear coupling between the vector components…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Plaja , J. San Roman

We variationally determine the dynamics of bright soliton trains composed of harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interatomic interactions. In particular, we obtain the interaction potential between two solitons.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Al Khawaja , H. T. C. Stoof , R. G. Hulet , K. E. Strecker , G. B. Partridge

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

We investigate the low-lying excitations of a stack of weakly-coupled two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates that is formed by a one-dimensional optical lattice. In particular, we calculate the dispersion relations of the monopole and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-13 J. -P. Martikainen , H. T. C. Stoof

We demonstrate that a tight transverse trap with the local frequency, $% \omega_{\perp}$, gradually varying in the longitudinal direction ($x$) induces an effective potential for one-dimensional solitons in a self-attractive Bose-Einstein…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio De Nicola , Boris A. Malomed , Renato Fedele