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Soliton Dynamics in the Collisions of Bose-Einstein Condensates: An Analog of the Josephson Effect

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Author(s)

W P. Reinhardt, Charles W. Clark

Abstract

The usual mean-field description of trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates predicts the existence of solitons in one-dimensional and quasi-one dimensional confinement. If the net atomic pair interaction is attractive, these solitons appear as coherently propagating matterwavepackets; if it is repulsive, soliton behvior is seen in the motion of holes in the condensate density, whose velocity it determined by the phase difference between adjoining pieces of condensate, in analogy to the familiar Josephson effect. We explore the properties of these solitons via elementary analytic models and computer simulation, and make specific suggestions for their experimental observation.
Citation
Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume
30

Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensation, Josephson effect, soliton, trapped atoms

Citation

Reinhardt, W. and Clark, C. (1998), Soliton Dynamics in the Collisions of Bose-Einstein Condensates: An Analog of the Josephson Effect, Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created December 31, 1997, Updated October 12, 2021