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Physical Review A

Dark and bright solitons in a quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate

Shun-Jin Wang, Chenglong Jia, Dun Zhao, Hong‐Gang Luo, Jun‐Hong An

Published Jul 2, 2003• 44 citations
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Abstract

The analytical dark and bright soliton solutions of the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a confining potential are obtained. For the bright soliton, the recent experimental finding is studied, and the particle number of the soliton and the window of the particle numbers for the bright soliton to occur are estimated analytically and in good agreement with the experimental data. The existence of dark soliton for the attractive interaction and bright soliton for the repulsive interaction is predicted under proper conditions.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.68.015601

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