Dark solitons and their head-on collisions in Bose-Einstein condensates

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作者
Huang, GX [1 ]
Velarde, MG
Makarov, VA
机构
[1] E China Normal Univ, Key Lab Opt & Magnet Resonance Spect, Shanghai 200062, Peoples R China
[2] E China Normal Univ, Dept Phys, Shanghai 200062, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Complutense Madrid, Inst Pluridisciplinar, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2001年 / 64卷 / 01期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.64.013617
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The evolution and collision of dark solitary waves (solitons) appearing in cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive atom-atom interaction are here considered using a Boussinesq-Korteweg-de Vries description. We provide theoretical predictions and computer experiment evidence about their phase shifts or change of trajectories, in the space-time plot, corresponding upon collisions. Details are also given about a suggested experiment that could assess their genuine solitonic nature.
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页码:136171 / 1361713
页数:11
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