Tunable transport with broken space–time symmetries

S Denisov, S Flach, P Hänggi - Physics Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
Transport properties of particles and waves in spatially periodic structures that are driven by
external time-dependent forces manifestly depend on the space–time symmetries of the …

Sagnac interferometry using bright matter-wave solitons

JL Helm, SL Cornish, SA Gardiner - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We use an effective one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study bright matter-wave
solitons held in a tightly confining toroidal trap** potential, in a rotating frame of reference …

Soliton-based matter-wave interferometer

J Polo, V Ahufinger - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2013 - APS
We consider a matter-wave bright soliton interferometer composed of a harmonic potential
trap with a Rosen-Morse barrier at its center on which an incident soliton collides and splits …

Dynamics of topological solitons, knotted streamlines, and transport of cargo in liquid crystals

HRO Sohn, PJ Ackerman, TJ Boyle, GH Sheetah… - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Active colloids and liquid crystals are capable of locally converting the macroscopically
supplied energy into directional motion and promise a host of new applications, ranging …

Analytical solitary-wave solutions of the generalized nonautonomous cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with different external potentials

JR He, HM Li - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2011 - APS
A large family of analytical solitary wave solutions to the generalized nonautonomous cubic-
quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with time-and space-dependent distributed …

Designable integrability of the variable coefficient nonlinear Schrödinger equations

J He, Y Li - Studies in applied mathematics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The designable integrability (DI)[51] of the variable coefficient nonlinear Schrödinger
equations (VCNLSEs) is first introduced by construction of an explicit transformation, which …

Bright matter-wave soliton collisions at narrow barriers

JL Helm, TP Billam, SA Gardiner - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2012 - APS
We study fast-moving bright solitons in the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation
perturbed by a narrow Gaussian potential barrier. In particular, we present a general and …

Spectroscopy and directed transport of topological solitons in crystals of trapped ions

J Brox, P Kiefer, M Bujak, T Schaetz, H Landa - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We study experimentally and theoretically discrete solitons in crystalline structures
consisting of several tens of laser-cooled ions confined in a radio frequency trap. Resonantly …

Realizing bright-matter-wave-soliton collisions with controlled relative phase

TP Billam, SL Cornish, SA Gardiner - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular …, 2011 - APS
We propose a method to split the ground state of an attractively interacting atomic Bose-
Einstein condensate into two bright solitary waves with controlled relative phase and …

Topological pum** assisted by Bloch oscillations

Y Ke, S Hu, B Zhu, J Gong, Y Kivshar, C Lee - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Adiabatic quantum pum** in one-dimensional lattices is extended by adding a tilted
potential to probe better topologically nontrivial bands. This extension leads to almost …