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.
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Di Carli, Andrea ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 74048 |
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: | 11 Feb 2021 10:30 |
URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/74048 |
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