Dynamics of a matter-wave bright soliton in an expulsive potential

Details Dynamics of a matter-wave bright soliton in an expulsive potential Dynamics of a matter-wave bright soliton in an expulsive potential

2002-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0205624v2

Phys. Rev. A 66, 063602 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

11 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.66.063602

The stability regimes and nonlinear dynamics of bright solitons created in a harmonic potential which is transversely attractive and longitudinally expulsive are presented. This choice of potential is motivated by the recent creation of a matter-wave bright soliton from an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate (L. Khaykovich {\it et al.}, Science 296, 1290 (2002)). The critical branches for collapse due to the three-dimensional character of the gas and explosion caused by the expulsive potential are derived based on variational studies. Particle loss from the soliton due to sudden changes in the trapping potential and scattering length are quantified. It is shown that higher order solitons can also be created in present experiments by an abrupt change of a factor of four in the scattering length. It is demonstrated that quantum evaporation occurs by nonlinear tunneling of particles out of the soliton, leading eventually to its explosion.

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