Brownian motion of solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1615004114MaRDI QIDQ4646149zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lauren M. Aycock, Hilary M. Hurst, Dmitry K. Efimkin, Dina Genkina, Hsin-I Lu, Victor M. Galitski, I. B. Spielman

Publication date 11 January 2019

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03916

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: For the first time, we observed and controlled the Brownian motion of solitons. We launched solitonic excitations in highly elongated ${}^{87}mRb$ BECs and showed that a dilute background of impurity atoms in a different internal state dramatically affects the soliton. With no impurities and in one-dimension (1-D), these solitons would have an infinite lifetime, a consequence of integrability. In our experiment, the added impurities scatter off the much larger soliton, contributing to its Brownian motion and decreasing its lifetime. We describe the soliton's diffusive behavior using a quasi-1-D scattering theory of impurity atoms interacting with a soliton, giving diffusion coefficients consistent with experiment.

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