Supersolitons: Solitonic Excitations in Atomic Soliton Chains

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

Type
Publication
Physical Review Letters 101, 144101 (2008)
David Novoa
David Novoa
Ikerbasque Research Fellow & Visiting Professor