Coherent emission of atomic soliton pairs by Feshbach-resonance tuning

Year: 2012

Authors: Michinel H., Paredes A., Martinez Valado M., Feijoo D.

Autors Affiliation: Univ Vigo, Fac Ciencias Ourense, Area Opt, ES-32004 Orense, Spain; Univ Pisa, Dipartamento Fis E Fermi, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; INO CNR, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.

Abstract: 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.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Volume: 86 (1)      Pages from: 13620-1  to: 13620-7

More Information: This work was supported by Xunta de Galicia (Project No. 10PXIB383191PR) and by the Universidade de Vigo research program. The work of A. P. is supported by the Ramon y Cajal program. M. M. V. gratefully acknowledges funding by the COHERENCE Network and INO-CNR. The work of D. F. is supported by a research grant of Universidade de Vigo.
KeyWords: Bose-Einstein condensation; interferometry; vortex; gases; limit
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.013620

Citations: 10
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