Control of light-atom solitons and atomic transport by optical vortex beams propagating through a Bose-Einstein condensate

Henderson, Grant W. and Robb, Gordon R. M. and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Yao, Alison M. (2022) Control of light-atom solitons and atomic transport by optical vortex beams propagating through a Bose-Einstein condensate. Physical Review Letters, 129 (7). 073902. ISSN 1079-7114 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.073902)

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Abstract

We model propagation of far-red-detuned optical vortex beams through a Bose-Einstein condensate using nonlinear Schrödinger and Gross-Pitaevskii equations. We show the formation of coupled light-atomic solitons that rotate azimuthally before moving off tangentially, carrying angular momentum. The number, and velocity, of solitons, depends on the orbital angular momentum of the optical field. Using a Bessel-Gauss beam increases radial confinement so that solitons can rotate with fixed azimuthal velocity. Our model provides a highly controllable method of channeling a BEC and atomic transport.

ORCID iDs

Henderson, Grant W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1293-8904, Robb, Gordon R. M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3004-5926, Oppo, Gian-Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-4309 and Yao, Alison M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6260-5852;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:81864
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    12 August 2022
    Published
    7 July 2022
    Accepted
    22 March 2022
    Submitted
    Subjects:Science > Physics > Optics. Light
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:15 Aug 2022 10:38
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 13:35
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/81864
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