Dynamics of dipoles and vortices in nonlinearly-coupled three-dimensional harmonic oscillators

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVE.94.012207arXiv1602.07294WikidataQ50589952 ScholiaQ50589952MaRDI QIDQ6270771FDOQ6270771

Torsten Meier, B. A. Malomed, Rodislav Driben, V. V. Konotop

Publication date: 23 February 2016

Abstract: The dynamics of a pair of three-dimensional matter-wave harmonic oscillators (HOs) coupled by a repulsive cubic nonlinearity is investigated through direct simulations of the respective GrossPitaevskii equations (GPEs) and with the help of the finite-mode Galerkin approximation (GA),which represents the two interacting wave functions by a superposition of 3 + 3 HO p -wave eigenfunctions with orbital and magnetic quantum numbers l = 1 and m = 1; 0; 1. First, the GA very accurately predicts a broadly degenerate set of the system's ground states in the p -wave manifold, in the form of complexes built of a dipole coaxial with another dipole or vortex, as well as complexes built of mutually orthogonal dipoles. Next, pairs of non-coaxial vortices and/or dipoles, including pairs of mutually perpendicular vortices, develop remarkably stable dynamical regimes, which feature periodic exchange of the angular momentum and periodic switching between dipoles and vortices. For a moderately strong nonlinearity, simulations of the coupled GPEs agree very well with results produced by the GA, demonstrating that the dynamics is accurately spanned by the set of six modes limited to l = 1.

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