Solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a double-well potential

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2003.07.010zbMATH Open1047.81514arXivnlin/0210022OpenAlexW2058249300MaRDI QIDQ596357FDOQ596357

V. S. Shchesnovich, B. A. Malomed, Roberto A. Kraenkel

Publication date: 10 August 2004

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate, analytically and numerically, families of bright solitons in a system of two linearly coupled nonlinear Schrodinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equations, describing two Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in an asymmetric double-well potential, in particular, when the scattering lengths in the condensates have arbitrary magnitudes and opposite signs. The solitons are found to exist everywhere where they are permitted by the dispersion law. Using the Vakhitov-Kolokolov criterion and numerical methods, we show that, except for small regions in the parameter space, the solitons are stable to small perturbations. Some of them feature self-trapping of almost all the atoms in the condensate with no atomic interaction or weak repulsion coupled to the self-attractive condensate. An unusual bifurcation is found, when the soliton bifurcates from the zero solution without a visible jump in the shape, but with a jump in the number of trapped atoms. By means of numerical simulations, it is found that, depending on values of the parameters and the initial perturbation, unstable solitons either give rise to breathers or completely break down into incoherent waves ("radiation"). A version of the model with the self-attraction in both components, which applies to the description of dual-core fibers in nonlinear optics, is considered too, and new results are obtained for this much studied system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0210022

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zbMATH Keywords

Soliton stabilitySolitons in Bose-Einstein condensatesCoupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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Uses Software

• Matlab

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