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We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying scattering length. It is demonstrated that, even in the absence of any external trapping potential, a soliton can be confined due to the inhomogeneous…

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

The accumulation of atoms in the lowest energy level of a trap and the subsequent out-coupling of these atoms is a realization of a matter-wave analog of a conventional optical laser. Optical random lasers require materials that provide…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-09-16 Marcin Plodzien , Krzysztof Sacha

We study several effects which lead to symmetry-broken momentum distributions of quantum gases released from optical lattices. In particular, we demonstrate that interaction within the first milliseconds of the time-of-flight expansion can…

Multiphoton processes in dense atomic vapors such as four-wave mixing or coherent blue light generation are typically viewed from single-atom perspective. Here we study the surprisingly important effect of phase matching near two-photon…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-06 Adam Leszczyński , Michał Parniak , Wojciech Wasilewski

Matter-wave superradiance is based on the interplay between ultracold atoms coherently organized in momentum space and a backscattered wave. Here, we show that this mechanism may be triggered by Mie scattering from the atomic cloud. We show…

Fast magnetoacoustic wave is an important tool for inferring solar atmospheric parameters. We numerically simulate the propagation of fast wave pulses in randomly structured plasmas mimicking the highly inhomogeneous solar corona. A network…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Ding Yuan , Bo Li , Robert W. Walsh

Random resonant media being one of the possible realizations of disordered metamaterials open a room of opportunities for achieving new fundamental effects and designing advanced nanophotonic devices. Strongly nonlinear optical properties…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-17 Denis Novitsky , Alexander Shalin

We investigate the matter rogue wave in Bose-Einstein Condensates with attractive interatomic interaction analytically and numerically. Our results show that the formation of rogue wave is mainly due to the accumulation of energy and atoms…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-24 Lin Wen , Lu Li , Zai-Dong Li , Shu-Wei Song , Xiao-Fei Zhang , W. M. Liu

Refraction at the interface between two materials is fundamental to the interaction of light with photonic devices and to the propagation of light through the atmosphere at large. Underpinning the traditional rules for the refraction of an…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-02 Basanta Bhaduri , Murat Yessenov , Ayman F. Abouraddy

The detection of the theoretically expected dark matter is central to particle physics cosmology. Current fashionable supersymmetric models provide a natural dark matter candidate which is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP). Such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. D. Vergados

We discuss the concept of an all-optical and ionizing matter-wave interferometer in the time domain. The proposed setup aims at testing the wave nature of highly massive clusters and molecules, and it will enable new precision experiments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-07 Stefan Nimmrichter , Philipp Haslinger , Klaus Hornberger , Markus Arndt

In the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) scenario, the dark matter is composed of an ultra-light scalar field with coherence length and wave interference on astrophysical scales. Scalar fields generically have quartic self-interactions that modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Christian Capanelli , Wayne Hu , Evan McDonough

Pulse shaping provides a significant level of control and precision when optimizing laser-plasma interactions. Pulse shaping enables precise control and manipulation, resulting in enhanced energy deposition, optimized particle acceleration,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 A. A. Molavi Choobini , F. M. Aghamir , S. S. Ghaffari-Oskooei

Spontaneous pattern formation in a variety of spatially extended nonlinear system always occurs through a modulation instability: homogeneous state of the system becomes unstable with respect to growing modulation modes. Therefore, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-08-25 S. Kumar , R. Herrero , M. Botey , K. Staliunas

The exploration of light has traditionally focused on its spatial properties, particularly its orbital angular momentum (OAM), while its temporal dynamics have remained an underexplored frontier due to the slow response times of existing…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-24 Michael de Oliveira , Antonio Ambrosio

When coherent light interacts with an ordered lattice whose periodicity is comparable to its wavelength, constructive interference produces a diffraction pattern as in crystallography, where x-rays are employed to reveal atomic structures.…

The motion of atoms and nanoparticles in a trap formed by sequences of counter-propagating light pulses has been analyzed. The atomic state is described by a wave function constructed with the use of the Monte Carlo method, whereas the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 V. I. Romanenko , A. V. Romanenko , Ye. G. Udovitskaya , L. P. Yatsenko

We study the effects of dispersion in carrier waves on the properties of soliton self--induced transparency (SIT) in two level media. We found substantial impact of dispersion effects on typical SIT soliton features. For example, the degree…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 Zoran Ivic , Dalibor Čevizović , Željko Pržulj , Nikos Lazaridess , George Tsironis

We discuss an experimental setup where two laser-driven atoms spontaneously emit photons and every photon causes a ``click'' at a point on a screen. By deriving the probability density for an emission into a certain direction from basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Almut Beige , Christian Schoen , Jiannis Pachos

The cooperative modification of spontaneous radiative decay is a paradigmatic many-emitter effect in quantum optics. So far its experimental realization has involved interactions mediated by rapidly escaping photons that do not play an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Youngshin Kim , Alfonso Lanuza , Dominik Schneble