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Quantum soliton-trains of strongly correlated impurities in Bose-Einstein condensates

arXiv:2402.11802 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L032040

Abstract

Strongly correlated impurities immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) can form a periodic structure of tightly localized single atoms due to competing inter- and intra-species interactions, leading to a self-organized pinned state. In this work, we show numerically that the impurities in the self-pinned state form a soliton-train, as a consequence of a BEC-mediated attractive self-interaction and ordering due to the exclusion principle. The dynamics of the impurities possess similar characteristics to bright matter-wave solitons as they appear in attractive BECs, however in the few impurities case, the detailed nature of collisions is determined by their quantum statistics.

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