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Formation of bright matter-wave solitons during the collapse of attractive Bose-Einstein condensates

Cornish, S.L.; Thompson, S.T.; Wieman, C.E.

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Authors

S.L. Cornish

S.T. Thompson

C.E. Wieman



Abstract

We observe bright matter-wave solitons form during the collapse of 85Rb condensates in a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic trap. The collapse is induced by using a Feshbach resonance to suddenly switch the atomic interactions from repulsive to attractive. Remnant condensates containing several times the critical number of atoms for the onset of instability are observed to survive the collapse. Under these conditions a highly robust configuration of 3D solitons forms such that each soliton satisfies the condition for stability and neighboring solitons exhibit repulsive interactions.

Citation

Cornish, S., Thompson, S., & Wieman, C. (2006). Formation of bright matter-wave solitons during the collapse of attractive Bose-Einstein condensates. Physical Review Letters, 96(17), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.96.170401

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date 2006-05
Deposit Date Jan 4, 2007
Publicly Available Date Sep 20, 2010
Journal Physical Review Letters
Print ISSN 0031-9007
Electronic ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 96
Issue 17
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.96.170401

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