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We have performed a principle-proof-experiment of a magneto-optical diffraction (MOD) technique that requires no energy level splitting by homogeneous magnetic field and a circularly polarized optical lattice, avoiding system errors in an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-05 Yueyang Zhai , Peng Zhang , Xuzong Chen , Guangjiong Dong , Xiaoji Zhou

We analyze the existence, stability, and internal modes of gap solitons in nonlinear periodic systems described by the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a sinusoidal potential, such as photonic crystals, waveguide arrays,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We report the computational discovery of complex, topologically charged, and spectrally stable states in three-dimensional multi-component nonlinear wave systems of nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger type. While our computations relate to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-02-01 N. Boullé , I. Newell , P. E. Farrell , P. G. Kevrekidis

The paper studies the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a 1D parabolic optical lattice, and excited by a sudden shift of the lattice center. Depending on the magnitude of the initial shift, the condensate undergoes either…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-29 A. V. Ponomarev , A. R. Kolovsky

Cold atoms in an optical lattice provide an ideal platform for studying Bloch oscillations. Here, we extend Bloch oscillations to two superposed optical lattices that are accelerated away from one another, and for the first time show that…

In previous work we showed that bright atomic solitons can arise in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in the form of gap solitons even for repulsive many-body interactions. Here we further explore the properties of atomic gap solitons and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-21 S. Potting , O. Zobay , P. Meystre , E. M. Wright

A model of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring optical lattice with atomic dissipations applied at a stationary or at a moving location on the ring is presented. The localized dissipation is shown to generate and stabilize both stationary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 Russell Campbell , Gian-Luca Oppo

The dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in the lowest energy band of a one-dimensional optical lattice is generally disturbed by the presence of transversally excited resonant states. We propose an effective one-dimensional theory which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -P. Marzlin , V. I. Yukalov

Employing a general variational method and perturbation theory, we derived explicit solutions for the description of one-dimensional two species Bose-Einstein condensates confined by a harmonic trap potential in an optical lattice. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-19 R. Cipolatti , L. Villegas-Lelovsky , M. C. Chung , C. Trallero-Giner

Vortex lattices in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates lead to a periodic modulation of the superfluid density with a triangular symmetry. Here we show that this symmetry can be combined with an external perturbation in order to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-02-10 L. J. O'Riordan , A. C. White , Th. Busch

We investigate two-dimensional (2D) states of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with self-attraction or self-repulsion, trapped in an axially symmetric optical-lattice potential periodic along the radius. Unlike previously studied 2D models…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-13 Bakhtiyor B. Baizakov , Boris A. Malomed , Mario Salerno

We elaborate a mechanism for the formation of stable solitons of the semi-vortex type (with vorticities 0 and 1 in their two components), populating a finite bandgap in the spectrum of the spin-orbit-coupled binary Bose-Einstein condensate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 H. Sakaguchi , B. A. Malomed

We demonstrate a possibility to generate localized states in effectively one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates with a negative scattering length in the form of a dark soliton in the presence of an optical lattice (OL) and/or a parabolic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , Boris A. Malomed , A. R. Bishop , I. G. Kevrekidis

We show that the phenomenon of modulational instability in arrays of Bose-Einstein condensates confined to optical lattices gives rise to coherent spatial structures of localized excitations. These excitations represent thin disks in 1D,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 B. B. Baizakov , V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno

We study the dynamics of bright solitons formed in a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive atomic interactions perturbed by a weak bichromatic optical lattice potential. The lattice depth is a biperiodic function of time with a zero…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Dario Poletti , Tristram J. Alexander , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Baowen Li , Yuri S. Kivshar

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate of ultracold atoms loaded into a square optical lattice and subject to a static force. For vanishing atom-atom interactions the atoms perform periodic Bloch oscillations for arbitrary direction of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 M. -C. Chung , A. R. Kolovsky

Superflow of Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice is represented by a Bloch wave, a plane wave with periodic modulation of the amplitude. We review the theoretical results on the interaction effects in the energy dispersion of the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Biao Wu , Qian Niu

We propose a scheme for the creation of stable three dimensional bright solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates, i.e., the matter-wave analog of so-called spatio-temporal "light bullets". Off-resonant dressing to Rydberg $nD$-states is shown…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 F. Maucher , N. Henkel , M. Saffman , W. Królikowski , S. Skupin , T. Pohl

The theory of Bloembergen and Pershan for the light waves at the boundary of nonlinear media is extended to a nonlinear two-dimensional atomic crystal, i.e. a single planar atomic lattice, placed in between linear bulk media. The crystal is…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-20 Michele Merano

A theoretical scheme for an experimental implementation involving bisolitonic matter waves from an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate, is considered within the framework of a non-perturbative approach to the associate Gross-Pitaevskii…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-02-22 Alain Moise Dikande , Isaiah Ndifon Ngek , Joseph Ebobenow