Core filling and snaking instability of dark solitons in spin-imbalanced superfluid Fermi gases

Abstract

We use the time-dependent Bogoliubov de Gennes equations to study dark solitons in three-dimensional spin-imbalanced superfluid Fermi gases. We explore how the shape and dynamics of dark solitons are altered by the presence of excess unpaired spins which fill their low-density core. The unpaired particles broaden the solitons and suppress the transverse snake instability. We discuss ways of observing these phenomena in cold atom experiments.

6 pages, 3 figures; Appendix with details of split-step method