2006/03/17 by Krzysztof Sacha, Eddy Timmermans · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.other
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.73.063604
published as Phys. Rev. A 73, 063604 (2006) · 7 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2006/03/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We consider the self-localization of neutral impurity atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D model. Within the strong coupling approach, we show that the self-localized state exhibits parametric soliton behavior. The corresponding stationary states are analogous to the solitons of non-linear optics and to the solitonic solutions of the Schroedinger-Newton equation (which appears in models that consider the connection between quantum mechanics and gravitation). In addition, we present a Bogoliubov-de-Gennes formalism to describe the quantum fluctuations around the product state of the strong coupling description. Our fluctuation calculations yield the excitation spectrum and reveal considerable corrections to the strong coupling description. The knowledge of the spectrum allows a spectroscopic detection of the impurity self-localization phenomenon.