Dark Matter-Wave Solitons in Optical Lattices

2003/11/04 by Pearl J. Y. Louis, Louis, Pearl J. Y., Elena A. Ostrovskaya +3
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Spectroscopy and Laser Applications #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #cond-mat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0311059

15 pages, 7 figures, submitted to J. Opt. B; Topical Issue: Optical Solitons

arxiv created 2003/11/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We analyze the Floquet-Bloch matter-wave spectrum of Bose-Einstein condensates loaded into single-periodic optical lattices and double-periodic superlattices. In the framework of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we describe the structure and analyze the mobility properties of dark matter-wave solitons residing on the background of extended nonlinear Bloch-type states. We demonstrate that interaction between dark solitons can be effectively controlled in optical superlattices.

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