Multiple fluxon analogues and dark solitons in linearly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates
arXiv:1305.6685 · doi:10.1007/10091_2012_18
Abstract
Two effectively one-dimensional parallel coupled Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of external potentials are studied. The system is modelled by linearly coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations. In particular, the interactions of grey-soliton-like solutions representing analogues of superconducting Josephson fluxons as well as coupled dark solitons are discussed. A theoretical approximation based on variational formulations to calculate the oscillation frequency of the grey-soliton-like solution is derived and a qualitatively good agreement is obtained.
26 pages, 17 figures. Appeared in "Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-Trapping, and Josephson Oscillations", B.A. Malomed, ed. (Springer, Berlin, 2013)