Creation of gap solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates

Preprint

20 May 1998

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9805228

Abstract

We discuss a method to launch gap soliton-like structures in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates confined in optical traps. Bright vector solitons consisting of a superposition of two hyperfine Zeeman sublevels can be created for both attractive and repulsive interactions between the atoms. Their formation relies on the dynamics of the atomic internal ground states in two far-off resonant counterpropagating sigma^+ sigma^- polarized laser beams which form the optical trap. Numerical simulations show that these solitons can be prepared from a one-component state provided with an initial velocity.

Keywords

BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATES
STRUCTURES IN ATOMIC
EINSTEIN CONDENSATES
OPTICAL TRAP
GAP SOLITON
SOLITONS
TRAPS

All Related Versions

Version 1, 1998-05-20, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review A, 59 (1), 643.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: