Controllable soliton emission from a Bose-Einstein condensate
M.I. Rodas-Verde, H. Michinel, V.M. Pérez-García
Physical Review Letters, 95, 153903 (2005)
MOLAB authors
Abstract
We demonstrate, through numerical simulations, the controllable emission of matter-wave bursts from a Bose-Einstein condensate in a shallow optical dipole trap. The process is triggered by spatial variations of the scattering length along the trapping axis. In our approach, the outcoupling mechanisms are atom-atom interactions and thus, the trap remains unaltered. Once emitted, the matter wave forms a robust soliton. We calculate analytically the parameters for the experimental implementation of these matter-wave bursts of solitons.