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Published on: March 30, 2017
Landau dynamics of a grey soliton in a trapped condensate
Vladimir V Konotop1, Lev Pitaevskii
1Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Universidade de Lisboa, Complexo Interdisciplinar, Avenida Professor Gama Pinto 2, Lisboa 1649-003, Portugal.
Abstract:
It is shown that grey soliton dynamics in a one-dimensional trap can be treated within the framework of the local density approximation as Landau dynamics of a quasiparticle. A soliton of arbitrary amplitude moves in the trapping potential without deformation of its density profile as a particle of mass 2m. The dynamics in the local density approximation is shown to be consistent with the perturbation theory for dark solitons. Dynamics of a vortex ring in a trap is discussed qualitatively.
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