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We investigate linear interference effects between a nonlinear plane wave and bright solitons, which are admitted by pair-transition coupled two-component Bose-Einstein condensate. We demonstrate the interference effects can induce several…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-07 Y. H. Qin , L. C. Zhao , Z. Y. Yang , W. L. Yang

We consider one-dimensional solitons in a binary Bose-Einstein condensate with linear coupling between the components, trapped in an optical-lattice potential. The inter-species and intra-species interactions may be both repulsive or…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Sadhan K. Adhikari , Boris A. Malomed

We analyze the formation and dynamics of bright unstaggered solitons in the disk-shaped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate, which features the interplay of contact (collisional) and long-range dipole-dipole (DD) interactions between atoms.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-14 Goran Gligorić , Aleksandra Maluckov , Milutin Stepić , Ljupčo Hadžievski , Boris A. Malomed

We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying nonlinearity. It is demonstrated that a translation mode is excited due to the spatial inhomogeneity and its frequency is derived analytically and also…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Niarchou , G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis , P. Schmelcher , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We discuss the dynamics of interacting atomic bright solitons and dark bubbles in bulk immiscible Bose-Einstein condensates. Coherent matter-wave clusters can be constructed using dark-bright pairs with appropriate phases. In two dimensions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-06-02 Chenyun Yin , Natalia G. Berloff , Víctor M. Pérez-García , V. A. Brazhnyi , H. Michinel

We address the properties of surface solitons supported by optical lattices imprinted in photorefractive media with asymmetric diffusion nonlinearity. Such solitons exist only in finite gaps of lattice spectrum. In contrast to latticeless…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

We study the spontaneous symmetry breaking of dipolar Bose--Einstein condensates trapped in stacks of two-well systems, which may be effectively built as one-dimensional trapping lattices sliced by a repelling laser sheet. If the potential…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-08-04 Yongyao Li , Zhiwei Fan , Zhihuan Luo , Yan Liu , Hexiang He , Jiantao Lü , Jianing Xie , Chunqing Huang , Haishu Tan

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 propose an experimentally relevant protocol for the controlled generation of matter-wave dark solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). In particular, using direct numerical simulations, we show that by switching-on a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Wang , P. G. Kevrekidis , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

By solving the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation we generate two-dimensional axially-symmetric and anisotropic dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate bright solitons, for repulsive atomic interaction, stabilized by only a weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-03 S. K. Adhikari , P. Muruganandam

We study the motion of bright matter wave solitons in nonlinear potentials, produced by periodic or random spatial variations of the atomic scattering length. We obtain analytical results for the soliton motion, the radiation of matter…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Josselin Garnier

We present numerical and analytical results for the reflection and transmission properties of matter wave solitons impinging on localized scattering potentials in one spatial dimension. Our mean field analysis identifies regimes where the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-10-22 Sidse Damgaard Hansen , Nicolai Nygaard , Klaus Mølmer

We present a theoretical analysis of three-dimensional (3D) matter-wave solitons and their stability properties in coupled atomic and molecular Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). The soliton solutions to the mean-field equations are obtained…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. G. Vaughan , K. V. Kheruntsyan , P. D. Drummond

We show that an inhomogeneous defocusing nonlinearity that grows toward the periphery in the positive and negative transverse directions at different rates can support strongly asymmetric fundamental and multipole bright solitons, which are…

We demonstrate the existence of fundamental and dipole interface solitons in one-dimensional thermal nonlinear media with a step in linear refractive index. Fundamental interface solitons are found to be always stable and the stability of…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-15 Xuekai Ma , Zhenjun Yang , Daquan Lu , Wei Hu

Static and dynamic properties of matter-wave solitons in dense Bose-Einstein condensates, where three-body interactions play a significant role, have been studied by a variational approximation (VA) and numerical simulations. For…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-06-10 B. B. Baizakov , A. Bouketir , A. Messikh , A. Benseghir , B. A. Umarov

We predict the existence of spatially localized nontrivial vortex states of a Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive atomic interaction confined by a three-dimensional optical lattice. Such vortex-like structures include planar vortices,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Tristram J. Alexander , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We discover the existence of vortex solitons supported by the surface between two optical lattices imprinted in Kerr-type nonlinear media. Such solitons can feature strongly noncanonical profiles, and we found that their properties are…

Starting with a Gaussian variational ansatz, we predict anisotropic bright solitons in quasi-2D Bose-Einstein condensates consisting of atoms with dipole moments polarized \emph{perpendicular} to the confinement direction. Unlike isotropic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Tikhonenkov , B. A. Malomed , A. Vardi

We investigate solitons and nonlinear Bloch waves in Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in optical lattices. By introducing specially designed localized profiles of the spatial modulation of the attractive nonlinearity, we construct an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Jie-Fang Zhang , Yi-Shen Li , Jianping Meng , Lei Wu , Boris A. Malomed