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Solitary waves in trapped quantum droplets

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Abstract

We unravel the existence and stability properties of dark soliton solutions as they extend from the regime of trapped quantum droplets towards the Thomas-Fermi limit in homonuclear symmetric Bose mixtures. Leveraging a phase-plane analysis, we identify the regimes of existence of different types of quantum droplets and subsequently examine the possibility of black and gray solitons and kink-type structures in this system. Moreover, we employ the Landau dynamics approach to extract an analytical estimate of the oscillation frequency of a single dark soliton in a trapped droplet. Within the extended Gross-Pitaevskii framework, we find that the single soliton immersed in a droplet is stable, while multisoliton configurations exhibit parametric windows of oscillatory instabilities. Our results pave the way for studying dynamical features of nonlinear multisoliton excitations in a droplet environment in contemporary experimental settings.

Presenters

  • Simeon I Mistakidis

    ITAMP, Harvard University

Authors

  • Simeon I Mistakidis

    ITAMP, Harvard University

  • Garyfallia Katsimiga

    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, University of Hamburg

  • Georgios Koutsokostas

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

  • Dimitri Frantzeskakis

    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

  • Ricardo Carretero-Gonzalez

    Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University

  • Panayotis Kevrekidis

    University of Massachusetts Amherst