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Control of Matter Waves in Optical Lattices by Feshbach Resonance
Valeriy A. Brazhnyi, V. V. Konotop
Abstract
Using the Feshbach resonance (FR) one can change a scattering length of two-body interactions and thus affect nonlinear dynamics of excitations in a Bose-Einstein condensate. The phenomenon is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation with varying nonlinearity. In this work we discuss the effect of variation of the nonlinearity on excitations in a BEC placed in an optical lattice. More specifically, we describe reductions of a three-dimensional (3D) GP equation to a 1D perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation for different relations among parameters; discuss periodic solutions of the NLS equation; carry out numerical study of the dynamics of the NLS equation with a periodic and parabolic trap potentials. Special attention is paid to the process of generation of trains of bright and dark matter solitons from initially periodic waves.