2012
Journal article  Open Access

Coherent emission of atomic soliton pairs by Feshbach-resonance tuning

Michinel Humberto, Paredes Angel, Valado Maria M., Feijoo David

GASES  Atomic and Molecular Physics  and Optics  INTERFEROMETRY  LIMIT  Quantum Physics (quant-ph)  Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases  Quantum Physics  Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)  FOS: Physical sciences  BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION  VORTEX 

We present two simple designs of matter-wave beam splitters in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). In our scheme, identical pairs of atomic solitons are produced by an adequate control-in time and/or space-of the scattering length. Our analysis is performed by numerical integration of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and supported by several analytical estimates. Our results show that these devices can be implemented in the frame of current BEC experiments. The system has potential applications for the construction of a soliton interferometer.

Source: Physical review. A 86 (2012): 013620–013620. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.86.013620

Publisher: Published by the American Physical Society through the American Institute of Physics,, New York, N.Y. , Stati Uniti d'America


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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:206097,
	title = {Coherent emission of atomic soliton pairs by Feshbach-resonance tuning},
	author = {Michinel Humberto and Paredes Angel and Valado Maria M. and Feijoo David},
	publisher = {Published by the American Physical Society through the American Institute of Physics,, New York, N.Y. , Stati Uniti d'America},
	doi = {10.1103/physreva.86.013620 and 10.48550/arxiv.1605.02647},
	journal = {Physical review. A},
	volume = {86},
	pages = {013620–013620},
	year = {2012}
}