Brownian motion of solitons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

L. M. Aycock, H. M. Hurst, D. K. Efimkin +4

For the first time, we observed and controlled the Brownian motion of solitons. We launched solitonic excitations in highly elongated ${}^{87}\mathrm{Rb}$ BECs and showed that a dilute b…