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arXiv:cond-mat/0209053 · Physical Review Letters

Dynamically Stabilized Bright Solitons in a Two-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate

Hiroki Saito, Masahito Ueda

Published Jan 30, 2003• 382 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate that a matter-wave bright soliton can be stabilized in 2D free space by causing the strength of interactions to oscillate rapidly between repulsive and attractive by using, e.g., Feshbach resonance.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.90.040403

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