Scattering of Matter Wave Solitons on Localized Potentials

Abstract

We study the reflection and transmission properties of matter wave solitons impinging on localized scattering potentials in one spatial dimension. By mean field analysis we identify regimes where the solitons behave more like waves or more like particles as a result of the interplay between the dispersive wave propagation and the attractive interactions between the atoms. For a bright soliton propagating together with a dark soliton void in a two-species Bose-Einstein condensate, we find different reflection and transmission properties of the dark and the bright components.

Keywords

• Bose-Einstein condensates
• non-linear Schrödinger equation
• solitons
• scattering
• collective excitations
• atomtronics