Bright matter wave solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates
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2003-06-16
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Strecker, K E
Partridge, G B
Truscott, Andrew
Hulet, Randall G
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Institute of Physics Publishing
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We review recent experimental and theoretical work on the creation
of bright matter wave solitons in Bose–Einstein condensates. In two recent experiments,
solitons are formed from Bose–Einstein condensates of 7Li by utilizing
a Feshbach resonance to switch from repulsive to attractive interactions.
The solitons are made to propagate in a one-dimensional potential formed by a
focused laser beam. For repulsive interactions, the wavepacket undergoes dispersivewavepacket
spreading, while for attractive interactions, localized solitons are
formed. In our experiment, a multi-soliton train containing up to ten solitons is
observed to propagate without spreading for a duration of 2 s. Adjacent solitons
are found to interact repulsively, in agreement with a calculation based on the
nonlinear Schr¨odinger equation assuming that the soliton train is formed with an
alternating phase structure. The origin of this phase structure is not entirely clear.
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New Journal of Physics 5 (2003): 73.1-73.8
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