Fluctuating and dissipative dynamics of dark solitons in quasicondensates
Fluctuating and dissipative dynamics of dark solitons in quasicondensates
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DOI:
10.1103/physreva.84.043640
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发表时间:
2011-07
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2.9
通讯作者:
S. P. Cockburn;H. Nistazakis;T. Horikis;P. Kevrekidis;N. Proukakis;D. Frantzeskakis
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S. P. Cockburn;H. Nistazakis;T. Horikis;P. Kevrekidis;N. Proukakis;D. Frantzeskakis
The fluctuating and dissipative dynamics of matter-wave dark solitons within harmonically trapped, partially condensed Bose gases is studied both numerically and analytically. A study of the stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which correctly accounts for density and phase fluctuations at finite temperatures, reveals dark-soliton decay times to be lognormally distributed at each temperature, thereby characterizing the previously predicted long-lived soliton trajectories within each ensemble of numerical realizations [S. P. Cockburn et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 174101 (2010)]. Expectation values for the average soliton lifetimes extracted from these distributions are found to agree well with both numerical and analytic predictions based upon the dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii model (with the same ab initio damping). Probing the regime for which 0.8 k{sub B}T<{mu}<1.6 k{sub B}T, we find average soliton lifetimes to scale with temperature as {tau}{approx}T{sup -4}, in agreement with predictions previously made for the low-temperature regime k{sub B}T<<{mu}. The model is also shown to capture the experimentally relevant decrease in the visibility of an oscillating soliton due to the presence of background fluctuations.