Dark–bright solitons in a superfluid Bose–Fermi mixture

Anno: 2016

Autori: Tylutki M., Recati A., Dalfovo F., Stringari S.

Affiliazione autori: Univ Trent, INO CNR BEC Ctr, Via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Povo, Italy; Univ Trent, Dipartimento Fis, Via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Povo, Italy; Tech Univ Munich, James Franck Str 1, D-85748 Garching, Germany.

Abstract: The recent experimental realisation of Bose–Fermi superfluid mixtures of dilute ultracold atomic gases has opened new perspectives in the study of quantum many-body systems. Depending on the values of the scattering lengths and the amount of bosons and fermions, a uniform Bose–Fermi mixture is predicted to exhibit a fully mixed phase, a fully separated phase or, in addition, a purely fermionic phase coexisting with a mixed phase. The occurrence of this intermediate configuration has interesting consequences when the system is nonuniform. In this work we theoretically investigate the case of solitonic solutions of coupled Bogoliubov–de Gennes and Gross–Pitaevskii equations for the fermionic and bosonic components, respectively. We show that, in the partially separated phase, a dark soliton in Fermi superfluid is accompanied by a broad bosonic component in the soliton, forming a dark–bright soliton which keeps full spatial coherence.

Giornale/Rivista: NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Volume: 18      Da Pagina: 053014-1  A: 053014-8

Maggiori informazioni: MT thanks Stefano Giorgini and Krzysztof Sacha for useful discussions. This work is supported by ERC through the QGBE grant, by the QUIC grant of the Horizon2020 FET program and by Provincia Autonoma di Trento. AR acknowledges support from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. This work is also supported by the PL-Grid infrastructure (MT).
Parole chiavi: Bose-Fermi Superfluidity; Cold Gases; Solitons
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/5/053014

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