Collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with a linear interaction gradient

Di Carli, Andrea and Henderson, Grant and Flannigan, Stuart and Colquhoun, Craig D. and Mitchell, Matthew and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Daley, Andrew J. and Kuhr, Stefan and Haller, Elmar (2020) Collisionally inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein condensates with a linear interaction gradient. Physical Review Letters, 125 (18). 183602. ISSN 0031-9007

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    Abstract

    We study the evolution of a collisionally inhomogeneous matter wave in a spatial gradient of the interaction strength. Starting with a Bose-Einstein condensate with weak repulsive interactions in quasi-one-dimensional geometry, we monitor the evolution of a matter wave that simultaneously extends into spatial regions with attractive and repulsive interactions. We observe the formation and the decay of solitonlike density peaks, counterpropagating self-interfering wave packets, and the creation of cascades of solitons. The matter-wave dynamics is well reproduced in numerical simulations based on the nonpolynomial Schrödinger equation with three-body loss, allowing us to better understand the underlying behavior based on a wavelet transformation. Our analysis provides new understanding of collapse processes for solitons, and opens interesting connections to other nonlinear instabilities.

    ORCID iDs

    Di Carli, Andrea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0377-6886, Henderson, Grant, Flannigan, Stuart, Colquhoun, Craig D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3682-2607, Mitchell, Matthew, Oppo, Gian-Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-4309, Daley, Andrew J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9005-7761, Kuhr, Stefan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8386-5357 and Haller, Elmar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7951-1721;
    • Item type:Article
      ID code:74048
      Dates:
      Date
      Event
      28 October 2020
      Published
      23 September 2020
      Accepted
      24 August 2019
      Submitted
      Keywords:collisionally inhomogeneous fluids, Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC), solitons, nonlinear instabilities, Plasma physics. Ionized gases, Physics and Astronomy(all)
      Subjects:Science > Physics > Plasma physics. Ionized gases
      Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
      Depositing user: Pure Administrator
      Date deposited:01 Oct 2020 15:47
      Last modified:07 May 2021 00:51
      URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/74048
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