Publication
Title
Dark soliton collisions in superfluid Fermi gases
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Abstract
In this work dark soliton collisions in a one-dimensional superfluid Fermi gas are studied across the BEC-BCS crossover by means of a recently developed finite-temperature effective field theory (2015 Eur. Phys. J. B 88 122). The evolution of two counter-propagating solitons is simulated numerically based on the theory's nonlinear equation of motion for the pair field. The resulting collisions are observed to introduce a spatial shift into the trajectories of the solitons. The magnitude of this shift is calculated and studied in different conditions of temperature and spin-imbalance. When moving away from the BEC-regime, the collisions are found to become inelastic, emitting the lost energy in the form of small-amplitude density oscillations. This inelasticity is quantified and its behavior analyzed and compared to the results of other works. The dispersion relation of the density oscillations is calculated and is demonstrated to show a good agreement with the spectrum of collective excitations of the superfluid.
Language
English
Source (journal)
New journal of physics / Institute of Physics [Londen]; German Physical Society. - Bristol
Publication
Bristol : 2018
ISSN
1367-2630
DOI
10.1088/1367-2630/AAC2A9
Volume/pages
20 (2018) , 15 p.
Article Reference
053052
ISI
000433109700002
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Research group
Project info
Superfluidity and superconductivity in multicomponent quantum condensates.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Creation 12.06.2018
Last edited 09.10.2023
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