Quench-produced solitons in a box-trapped Bose-Einstein condensate

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Abstract

We describe a protocol to prepare solitons in a quasi-1d box-trapped Bose-Einstein condensate using only a quench of the isotropic s-wave scattering length. A quench to exactly four times the initial scattering length creates one soliton at each boundary of the box, which then propagate in a uniform background density and collide with one another. No nonsolotonic excitations are created during the quench. We investigate the robustness of this procedure to the scattering length ramp rate and a mismatch of the final scattering length.

*This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. PHY 1125844 and No. PHY 1806971.

Presenters

  • Eli Halperin

    • JILA

Authors

  • Eli Halperin

    • JILA
  • Michelle Wynne C Sze

    • JILA
  • John Corson

    • JILA
  • John L Bohn

    • JILA