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Quench-produced solitons in a box-trapped Bose-Einstein condensate

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Abstract

We describe a protocol to prepare solitons in a quasi-1d box-trapped Bose-Einstein condensate using only a quench of the isotropic s-wave scattering length. A quench to exactly four times the initial scattering length creates one soliton at each boundary of the box, which then propagate in a uniform background density and collide with one another. No nonsolotonic excitations are created during the quench. We investigate the robustness of this procedure to the scattering length ramp rate and a mismatch of the final scattering length.

Presenters

  • Eli Halperin

    JILA

Authors

  • Eli Halperin

    JILA

  • Michelle Wynne C Sze

    JILA

  • John Corson

    JILA

  • John L Bohn

    JILA