Solitary waves in trapped quantum droplets

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Abstract

We unravel the existence and stability properties of dark soliton solutions as they extend from the regime of trapped quantum droplets towards the Thomas-Fermi limit in homonuclear symmetric Bose mixtures. Leveraging a phase-plane analysis, we identify the regimes of existence of different types of quantum droplets and subsequently examine the possibility of black and gray solitons and kink-type structures in this system. Moreover, we employ the Landau dynamics approach to extract an analytical estimate of the oscillation frequency of a single dark soliton in a trapped droplet. Within the extended Gross-Pitaevskii framework, we find that the single soliton immersed in a droplet is stable, while multisoliton configurations exhibit parametric windows of oscillatory instabilities. Our results pave the way for studying dynamical features of nonlinear multisoliton excitations in a droplet environment in contemporary experimental settings.

*S. I. M gratefully acknowledges financial support from the NSF through a grant for ITAMP at Harvard University. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under the awards PHY-2110038 (RCG) and PHY-2110030 and DMS-2204702 (PGK).

Presenters

  • Simeon I Mistakidis

    • ITAMP, Harvard University

Authors

  • Simeon I Mistakidis

    • ITAMP, Harvard University
  • Garyfallia Katsimiga

    • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Hamburg
  • Georgios Koutsokostas

    • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Dimitri Frantzeskakis

    • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Ricardo Carretero-Gonzalez

    • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University
  • Panayotis Kevrekidis

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst