Spielman, I.
, Fritsch, A.
, Mithun, T.
and Kevrekidis, P.
(2022),
Dynamical Instability of 3d Stationary and Traveling Planar Dark Solitons, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=935234
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Dynamical Instability of 3d Stationary and Traveling Planar Dark Solitons
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, , T. Mithun, Panayotis Kevrekidis
Abstract
Here we revisit the topic of stationary and propagating solitonic excitations in self-repulsive three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates by quantitatively comparing theoretical analysis and associated numerical computations with our experimental results. Using fully 3d numerical simulations, we explore the existence, stability and evolution dynamics of such dark solitary waves, as well as their instability-induced decay products including solitonic vortices and vortex rings. In the trapped case and with no adjustable parameters, our numerical findings are in reasonable correspondence with experimentally observed coherent structures. Without a longitudinal trap we identify numerically exact traveling solutions and quantify how their transverse destabilization threshold changes as a function of the solitary wave speed.Citation
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
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soliton, BEC, vortex ring, decay
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Created November 9, 2022, Updated November 29, 2022