Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Dynamics of self-reinforcing matter-wave in gravito-optical surface trap
Golam Ali Sekh, Pallavi Kalikotay
Abstract
We consider matter-wave solitons/oscillons in the presence of gravito-optical surface traps within the framework of mean-field equations. We pay special attention to the dynamics of both solitons and oscillons against the reflecting platform, the position of which can either be varied periodically or quasiperiodically with time. It is seen that with the temporal variation of reflector's vertical position, the dynamics of the soliton can change from periodic to quasiperiodic while that of the oscillon can change from regular to chaotic. We find that the transition from regular to chaotic motion is prominent in Poincaré maps for different relevant recurrence times.