Atomic soliton transmission and induced collapse in scattering from a narrow barrier
arXiv:2310.02018 · doi:10.1038/s41598-023-49108-y
Abstract
We report systematic numerical simulations of the collision of a bright matter-wave soliton made of Bose-condensed alkali-metal atoms through a narrow potential barrier by using the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation. In this way, we determine how the transmission coefficient depends on the soliton impact velocity and the barrier height. Quite remarkably, we also obtain the regions of parameters where there is the collapse of the bright soliton induced by the collision. We compare these three-dimensional results with the ones obtained by three different one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations. We find that a specifically modified nonpolynomial Schrödinger equation is able to accurately assess the transmission coefficient even in a region in which the usual nonpolynomial Schrödinger equation does collapse. In particular, this simplified but very effective one-dimensional model takes into account the transverse width dynamics of the soliton with an ordinary differential equation coupled to the partial differential equation of the axial wave function of the Bose-Einstein condensate.
arXiv comment9 pages, 6 figures. Submitted for publication in Scientific Reports. Numerical package available at https://github.com/lorenzifrancesco/SolitonDynamics.jl
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