Controllable soliton emission from a Bose-Einstein condensate

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Oct 7;95(15):153903. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.153903. Epub 2005 Oct 5.

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.