Two-dimensional loosely and tightly bound solitons in optical lattices and inverted traps

Details Two-dimensional loosely and tightly bound solitons in optical lattices and inverted traps Two-dimensional loosely and tightly bound solitons in optical lattices and inverted traps

2004-05-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0405355v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

17 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-4075/37/11/001

We study the dynamics of nonlinear localized excitations (solitons) in two-dimensional (2D) Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with repulsive interactions, loaded into an optical lattice (OL), which is combined with an external parabolic potential. First, we demonstrate analytically that a broad (loosely bound, LB) soliton state, based on a 2D Bloch function near the edge of the Brillouin zone (BZ), has a negative effective mass (while the mass of a localized state is positive near the BZ center). The negative-mass soliton cannot be held by the usual trap, but it is safely confined by an inverted parabolic potential (anti-trap). Direct simulations demonstrate that the LB solitons (including the ones with intrinsic vorticity) are stable and can freely move on top of the OL. The frequency of elliptic motion of the LB-soliton's center in the anti-trapping potential is very close to the analytical prediction which treats the solition as a quasi-particle. In addition, the LB soliton of the vortex type features real rotation around its center. We also find an abrupt transition, which occurs with the increase of the number of atoms, from the negative-mass LB states to tightly bound (TB) solitons. An estimate demonstrates that, for the zero-vorticity states, the transition occurs when the number of atoms attains a critical number N=10^3, while for the vortex the transition takes place at N=5x10^3 atoms. The positive-mass LB states constructed near the BZ center (including vortices) can move freely too. The effects predicted for BECs also apply to optical spatial solitons in bulk photonic crystals.

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