Quantum solitons in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Bose mixtures

Year: 2019

Authors: Tononi A., Wang YM., Salasnich L.

Autors Affiliation: Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron Galileo Galilei, Via Marzolo 8, I-35131 Padua, Italy; Shanxi Univ, Sch Phys & Elect Engn, Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi, Peoples R China; Shanxi Univ, Collaborat Innovat Ctr Extreme Opt, Taiyuan 030006, Shanxi, Peoples R China; CNR, INO, Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Abstract: Recent experimental and theoretical results show that weakly interacting atomic Bose-Bose mixtures with attractive interspecies interaction are stabilized by beyond-mean-field effects. Here we consider the peculiar properties of these systems in a strictly one-dimensional configuration, taking also into account the nontrivial role of spin-orbit and Rabi couplings. We show that when the value of inter- and intraspecies interaction strengths are such that mean-field contributions to the energy cancel, a self-bound bright soliton fully governed by quantum fluctuations exists. We derive the phase diagram of the phase transition between a single-peak soliton and a multipeak (striped) soliton, produced by the interplay between spin-orbit, Rabi couplings and beyond-mean-field effects, which also affect the breathing mode frequency of the atomic cloud. Finally, we prove that a phase imprinting of the single-peak soliton leads to a self-confined propagating solitary wave even in the presence of spin-orbit coupling.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Volume: 99 (6)      Pages from: 063618-1  to: 063618-5

More Information: We thank C. R. Cabrera, A. Simoni, and L. Tarruell for useful discussions. Y.W. acknowledges partial support by China Scholarship Council, Shanxi 1331KSC and 111 Project (No. D18001).
KeyWords: EINSTEIN; DROPLETS
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.063618

Citations: 30
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