No-soliton--soliton phase transition in a trapped one-dimensional Bose gas

Vanja Dunjko, Christopher P. Herzog, Yvan Castin +1

Following the experimental observation of bright matter-wave solitons [L. Khaykovich et al., Science v. 296, 1290 (2002); K. E. Strecker et al., Nature (London) v. 417, 150 (2002)]…