Collisional-inhomogeneity-induced generation of matter-wave dark solitons

Details Collisional-inhomogeneity-induced generation of matter-wave dark solitons Collisional-inhomogeneity-induced generation of matter-wave dark solitons

2010-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/1007.2638v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

8 pages, 5 Figures, Physics Letters A (in press)

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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 spatially inhomogeneous (step-like) change of the s-wave scattering length, it is possible to generate a controllable number of dark solitons in a quasi-one-dimensional BEC. A similar phenomenology is also found in the two-dimensional setting of "disk-shaped" BECs but, as the solitons are subject to the snaking instability, they decay into vortex structures. A detailed investigation of how the parameters involved affect the emergence and evolution of solitons and vortices is provided.

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