Nonlinear Sciences – Pattern Formation and Solitons
Scientific paper
2003-05-28
Nonlinear Sciences
Pattern Formation and Solitons
13 pages, 2 figures, invited paper to appear in Progress in Mathematical Physics Reseach (Nova Science Publishers, New York, 2
Scientific paper
Recently we have derived an effective one-dimensional nonpolynomial Schr\"odinger equation (NPSE) [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 65}, 043614 (2002)] that accurately describes atomic Bose-Einstein condensates under transverse harmonic confinement. In this paper we analyze the stability of the solitary-wave solutions of NPSE by means of the Vakhitov-Kolokolov criterion. Stable self-focusing solutions of NPSE are precisely the 3D bright solitons experimentally found in Bose-Einstein condensates [Nature {\bf 417}, 150 (2002); Science {\bf 296}, 1290 (2002)]. These self-focusing solutions generalize the ones obtained with the standard nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) and take into account the formation of instabilities in the transverse direction. We prove that neither cubic nor cubic-quintic approximations of NPSE are able to reproduce the unstable branch of the solitary-wave solutions. Moreover, we show that the analitically found critical point of NPSE is in remarkable good agreement with recent numerical computations of 3D GPE. We also discuss the formation of multiple solitons by a sudden change of the sign of the nonlinear strength. This formation can be interpreted in terms of the modulational instability of the time-dependent macroscopic wave function of the Bose condensate. In particular, we derive an accurate analytical formula for the number of multiple bright solitons.
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