Tightly bound gap solitons in a Fermi gas
arXiv:0802.2002 · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/79/50003
Abstract
Within the framework of the mean-field-hydrodynamic model of a degenerate Fermi gas (DFG), we study, by means of numerical methods and variational approximation (VA), the formation of fundamental gap solitons (FGSs) in a DFG (or in a BCS superfluid generated by weak interaction between spin-up and spin-down fermions), which is trapped in a periodic optical-lattice (OL) potential. An effectively one-dimensional (1D) configuration is considered, assuming strong transverse confinement; in parallel, a proper 1D model of the DFG (which amounts to the known quintic equation for the Tonks-Girardeau gas in the OL) is considered too. The FGSs found in the first two bandgaps of the OL-induced spectrum (unless they are very close to edges of the gaps) feature a tightly-bound shape, being essentially confined to a single cell of the OL. In the second bandgap, we also find antisymmetric tightly-bound subfundamental solitons (SFSs), with zero at the midpoint. The SFSs are also confined to a single cell of the OL, but, unlike the FGSs, they are unstable. The predicted solitons, consisting of atoms, can be created by available experimental techniques in the DFG of Li atoms.
6 pages, 8 figures
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