Quantum dark solitons in the 1D Bose gas and the superfluid velocity

Abstract

We give explicit connections of quantum one-hole excited states to classical solitons for the one-dimensional Bose gas with repulsive short-range interactions. We call the quantum states connected to classical solitons the quantum soliton states. We show that the matrix element of the canonical field operator between quantum soliton states with $N-1$ and $N$ particles is given by a dark soliton of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the weak coupling case. We suggest that the matrix element corresponds to the order parameter of BEC in the quantum soliton state. The result should be useful in the study of many-body effects in Bose-Einstein condensation and superfluids. For instance, we derive the superfluid velocity for a quantum soliton state.

arXiv comment5 pages, 3 figures

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