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Bright soliton trains of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates
U Al Khawaja1, H T C Stoof, R G Hulet
1Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Physical Review Letters
|November 22, 2002
Abstract:
We variationally determine the dynamics of bright soliton trains composed of harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interatomic interactions. In particular, we obtain the interaction potential between two solitons. We also discuss the formation of soliton trains due to the quantum mechanical phase fluctuations of a one-dimensional condensate.