Three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii solitary waves in optical lattices: stabilization using the artificial quartic kinetic energy induced by lattice shaking

Abstract

In this Letter, we show that a three-dimensional Bose-Einstein solitary wave can become stable if the dispersion law is changed from quadratic to quartic. We suggest a way to realize the quartic dispersion, using shaken optical lattices. Estimates show that the resulting solitary waves can occupy as little as $\sim 1/20$-th of the Brillouin zone in each of the three directions and contain as many as $N = 10^{3}$ atoms, thus representing a \textit{fully mobile} macroscopic three-dimensional object.

8 pages, 1 figure, accepted in Phys. Lett. A