Abstract
In previous work we showed that bright atomic solitons can arise in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in the form of gap solitons even for repulsive many-body interactions. Here we further explore the properties of atomic gap solitons and show that their internal structure can be used to both excite them and control their centre-of-mass motion using applied laser and magnetic fields. As an illustration we demonstrate a nonlinear atom-optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on gap solitons.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2653-2669 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journal of Modern Optics |
| Volume | 47-14 |
| Issue number | 15 |
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| State | Published - 2000 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics