Interaction of matter-wave gap solitons in optical lattices
Beata J. Dąbrowska-Wüster, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, Yuri S. Kivshar
We study the mobility and interaction of gap solitons in a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) confined by an optical lattice potential. Such localized wavepackets can exist only in the gaps of the matter-wave band-gap spectrum and their interaction properties are shown to serve as a measure of the discreteness imposed on a BEC by the lattice potential. We show that inelastic collisions of two weakly localized near-band-edge gap solitons provide a simple and effective means for generating strongly localized in-gap solitons through soliton fusion.
arXiv:cond-mat/0408234•Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics•Sep 15, 2004•24 citations