Observation of Hybrid Soliton Vortex-Ring Structures in Bose-Einstein Condensates
Abstract
We present the experimental discovery of compound structures comprising solitons and vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates. We examine both their creation via soliton-vortex collisions and their subsequent development, which is largely governed by the dynamics of interacting vortex rings. A theoretical model in three-dimensional cylindrical symmetry is also presented.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.040403
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0408464
- Bibcode:
- 2005PhRvL..94d0403G
- Keywords:
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- 03.75.Lm;
- 42.50.Gy;
- 47.32.Cc;
- 47.37.+q;
- Tunneling Josephson effect Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials solitons vortices and topological excitations;
- Effects of atomic coherence on propagation absorption and amplification of light;
- electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption;
- Hydrodynamic aspects of superfluidity;
- quantum fluids;
- Condensed Matter - Other;
- Physics - Atomic Physics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 4 figures