Controlled formation and reflection of a bright solitary matter-wave

AL Marchant, TP Billam, TP Wiles, MMH Yu… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Bright solitons are non-dispersive wave solutions, arising in a diverse range of nonlinear,
one-dimensional systems, including atomic Bose–Einstein condensates with attractive …

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 …

Evaporative production of bright atomic solitons

P Medley, MA Minar, NC Cizek, D Berryrieser… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We describe a method of producing bright atomic solitons of Li 7 through efficient radio
frequency evaporation in a combined magnetic and optical trap. Solitons released in a …

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 …

Quantum reflection of bright solitary matter waves from a narrow attractive potential

AL Marchant, TP Billam, MMH Yu, A Rakonjac, JL Helm… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We report the observation of quantum reflection from a narrow attractive potential using
bright solitary matter waves formed from a Rb 85 Bose-Einstein condensate. We create the …

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 …

Splitting bright matter-wave solitons on narrow potential barriers: Quantum to classical transition and applications to interferometry

JL Helm, SJ Rooney, C Weiss, SA Gardiner - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We study bright solitons in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation as they are split and recombined in
a low-energy system. We present analytic results determining the general region in which a …

Dynamics of a degenerate Cs-Yb mixture with attractive interspecies interactions

KE Wilson, A Guttridge, IK Liu, J Segal, TP Billam… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
We probe the collective dynamics of a quantum degenerate Bose-Bose mixture of Cs 133
and Yb 174 with attractive interspecies interactions. Specifically, we excite vertical center-of …

Vortex solutions in a binary immiscible Bose-Einstein condensate

R Doran, AW Baggaley, NG Parker - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We consider the mean-field vortex solutions and their stability within a two-component Bose-
Einstein condensate in the immiscible limit. A variational approach is employed to study a …

Coherent emission of atomic soliton pairs by Feshbach-resonance tuning

H Michinel, A Paredes, MM Valado, D Feijoo - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2012 - APS
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 …