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Realizing bright-matter-wave-soliton collisions with controlled relative phase

Billam, T.P.; Cornish, S.L.; Gardiner, S.A.

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T.P. Billam



Abstract

We propose a method to split the ground state of an attractively interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensate into two bright solitary waves with controlled relative phase and velocity. We analyze the stability of these waves against their subsequent recollisions at the center of a cylindrically symmetric, prolate harmonic trap as a function of relative phase, velocity, and trap anisotropy. We show that the collisional stability is strongly dependent on relative phase at low velocity, and we identify previously unobserved oscillations in the collisional stability as a function of the trap anisotropy. An experimental implementation of our method would determine the validity of the mean-field description of bright solitary waves and could prove to be an important step toward atom interferometry experiments involving bright solitary waves.

Citation

Billam, T., Cornish, S., & Gardiner, S. (2011). Realizing bright-matter-wave-soliton collisions with controlled relative phase. Physical Review A, 83(4), Article 041602. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.83.041602

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Apr 1, 2011
Deposit Date Apr 19, 2011
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Physical Review A
Print ISSN 1050-2947
Electronic ISSN 1094-1622
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 83
Issue 4
Article Number 041602
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.83.041602
Publisher URL http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.041602

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