2017/12/27 by Hidetsugu Sakaguchi, H. Sakaguchi, Boris A. Malomed +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Band gap #Bose–Einstein condensate #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed matter physics #Dipole #Excited state #Magnetic field #Parameter space #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum mechanics #Spin (aerodynamics) #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #Zeeman effect #cond-mat.quant-gas #nlin.PS
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.97.013607
Physical Review A, in press
arxiv created 2017/12/27 · openalex created_date 2018/01/05 · openalex publication_date 2018/01/10 · arxiv updated 2018/02/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We elaborate a mechanism for the formation of stable solitons of the semivortex type (with vorticities 0 and 1 in their two components), populating a finite band gap in the spectrum of the spin-orbit-coupled binary Bose-Einstein condensate with the Zeeman splitting, in the two-dimensional (2D) free space, under conditions which make the kinetic-energy terms in the respective coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations negligible. Unlike a recent work which used long-range dipole-dipole interactions to construct stable gap solitons in a similar setting, we here demonstrate that stable solitons are supported by generic local interactions of both attractive and repulsive signs, provided that the relative strength of the cross- and self-interactions in the two-component system does not exceed a critical value \ensuremath≈0.77. A boundary between stable and unstable fundamental 2D gap solitons is precisely predicted by the Vakhitov-Kolokolov criterion, while all excited states of the 2D solitons, with vorticities (m,1+m) in the two components, m=1,2,..., are unstable. The analysis of the one-dimensional (1D) reduction of the system produces an exact analytical solution for the family of gap solitons which populate the entire band gap, the family being fully stable. Motion of the 1D solitons in the trapping potential is considered too, showing that their effective mass is positive or negative if the cubic nonlinearity is attractive or repulsive, respectively.