SPLITTING AND RECOMBINATION OF 2D MATTER-WAVE SOLITONS IN A TRANSIENT TRAP
VR Sanal Kumar, Lin Wen, R. Radha, WM Liu
Abstract
We propose a novel and an alternative approach to manipulate two-dimensional bright matter-wave solitons by tuning the frequency of the transient trap unlike Feshbach resonance management. The bright soliton solutions for the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation in a time-dependent trap are constructed analytically and their dynamics shows no collapse while modulating the trap frequency. The two-soliton dynamics exhibits an interesting splitting and recombination phenomenon which generates an interference pattern in the process. This type of behavior in two-dimensional BECs has wider ramifications and our approach opens new avenues in stabilizing bright solitons in higher dimensional regime. We have also explored the experimental realization of this novel phenomenon.