arXiv · 1512.07656
Interfaces between Bose-Einstein and Tonks-Girardeau atomic gases
Abstract
We consider one-dimensional mixtures of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and Tonks- Giradeau (TG) gas. The mixture is modeled by a coupled system of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the BEC and the quintic nonlinear Schroedinger equation for the TG component. An immiscibility condition for the binary system is derived in a general form. Under this condition, three types of BEC-TG interfaces are considered: domain walls (DWs) separating the two components; bubble-drops (BDs), in the form of a drop of one component immersed into the other (BDs may be considered as bound states of two DWs); and bound states of bright and dark solitons (BDSs). The same model applies to the copropagation of two optical waves in a colloidal medium. The results are obtained by means of systematic numerical analysis, in combination with analytical Thomas-Fermi approximations (TFAs). Using both methods, families of DW states are produced in a generic form. BD complexes exist solely in the form of a TG drop embedded into the BEC background. On the contrary, BDSs exist as bound states of TG bright and BEC dark components, and vice versa.
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Giovanni Filatrella, Boris A. Malomed. 2015-12-23. Interfaces between Bose-Einstein and Tonks-Girardeau atomic gases. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630%2F18%2F2%2F025005
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