Supersolitons: Solitonic Excitations in Atomic Soliton Chains

2008/04/11 by David Novoa, Boris A. Malomed, Humberto Michinel +2 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #nlin.PS #nlin.SI

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.144101

arxiv created 2008/04/11 · openalex publication_date 2008/09/29 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We show that, by tuning interactions in nonintegrable vector nonlinear Schrödinger equations modeling Bose-Einstein condensates and other relevant physical systems, it is possible to achieve a regime of elastic particlelike collisions between solitons. This would allow one to construct a Newton's cradle with solitons and supersolitons: localized collective excitations in solitary-wave chains.

Citations

• Dynamics of solitons in nearly integrable systems
• Coherence Controlled Soliton Interactions
• Theory of Nonlinear Lattices

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