Soliton Creation During a Bose-Einstein Condensation

2009/09/30 by Bogdan Damski, Wojciech H. Zurek · 9 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #cond-mat.quant-gas #hep-th #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.104.160404

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.104:160404,2010 · 4 pages, 3 figures, improved version to appear in PRL: scalings discussed more extensively, fitting scheme for determination of z and nu critical exponents is explained

arxiv created 2010/03/23 · openalex publication_date 2010/04/22 · arxiv updated 2010/04/29 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We use the stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensation. We show that cooling into a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can create solitons with density given by the cooling rate and by the critical exponents of the transition. Thus, counting solitons left in its wake should allow one to determine the critical exponents z and nu for a BEC phase transition. The same information can be extracted from two-point correlation functions.

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