Swift loss of coherence of soliton trains in attractive Bose-Einstein condensates

Experiments on ultracold attractive Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have demonstrated that at low dimensions atomic clouds can form localized objects, propagating for long times without significant changes in their shapes and attributed to bright matter-wave solitons, which are coherent objects. We...

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Hauptverfasser: Streltsov, Alexej Iwanowitsch (VerfasserIn) , Alon, Ofir E. (VerfasserIn) , Cederbaum, Lorenz S. (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 14 June 2011
In: Physical review letters
Year: 2011, Jahrgang: 106, Heft: 24, Pages: 1-4
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.240401
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.240401
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Verfasserangaben:Alexej I. Streltsov, Ofir E. Alon, and Lorenz S. Cederbaum
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Zusammenfassung:Experiments on ultracold attractive Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have demonstrated that at low dimensions atomic clouds can form localized objects, propagating for long times without significant changes in their shapes and attributed to bright matter-wave solitons, which are coherent objects. We consider the dynamics of bright soliton trains from the perspective of many-boson physics. The fate of matter-wave soliton trains is actually to quickly lose their coherence and become macroscopically fragmented BECs. The death of the coherent matter-wave soliton trains gives birth to fragmented objects, whose quantum properties and experimental signatures differ substantially from what is currently assumed.
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ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.240401