变分法研究二维光晶格中玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的调制不稳定性

利用含时变分法研究了二维光晶格中准二维玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚中的调制不稳定性. 在平均场近似下, 由准二维Gross-Pitaevskii方程出发, 利用变分法给出了调制波振幅和相位所满足的时间演化方程, 通过求解时间演化方程和能量分析法给出了发生调制不稳定性的条件, 决定于平面波振幅, 晶格强度, 调制波的波矢量和原子之间的两体相互作用.     

二维玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚中孤立波的调制不稳定性

研究了盘状势阱中二维玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(BEC)的孤立波. 在平均场理论下, 由BEC所满足的Gross-Pitaevkii方程出发导出了二维BEC所满足的非线性Schrödinger方程. 从该方程出发, 研究单组分常振幅二维BEC(单组分常振幅 BEC)的调制不稳定性, 得到了该系统相应的增长率. 关键词： 孤子 不稳定性 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚     

Wave Trains Generation in a Delayed Nonlinear Response of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Three-Body Interactions

We investigate the modulational instability of matter-wave condensates in a modified Gross-Pitaevskii equation which takes into account effects of the three-body interaction. This three-body interaction consists of a quintic term and an additional one representing the delayed nonlinear response of condensates which are trapped both in an attractive and a repulsive harmonic potentials. Our theoretical study uses a modified lens-type transformation and we obtain a modulational instability criterion, and an explicit growth rate. We show that the presence of the three-body interaction destabilizes the condensate, and enhances the appearance of instability in the condensate. Numerical experiments agree well with analytical predictions. Furthermore, our numerical simulations show that the three-body interaction modifies the symmetry of the trail of soliton chains created. The expulsive potential enhances the instability, while the attractive potential appears to soften the instability.     

Intrinsic Localized Spin Wave Modes and Modulational Instability in a Two-Dimensional Heisenberg Ferromagnet

An analytical study on the properties of intrinsic localized modes and modulational instability in a quantum two-dimensional ferromagnet with single-ion uniaxial anisotropy is completed in the semiclassical limit. By making use of the semidiscrete multiple-scale method, we obtain a line localized solution and a radially symmetric localized solution, and analyze their existence conditions. Taking into account that the existence of bright localized solutions is closely linked to the modulational instability of plane waves, we analytically study the discrete modulational instability of plane spin waves. The result of the modulational instability analysis show that the uniaxial anisotropy plays a key role in the appearance of our intrinsic localized spin wave modes.     

Spontaneous soliton formation and modulational instability in Bose-Einstein condensates

The dynamics of an elongated attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in an axisymmetric harmonic trap is studied. It is shown that density fringes caused by self-interference of the condensate order parameter seed modulational instability. The latter has novel features in contradistinction to the usual homogeneous case known from nonlinear fiber optics. Several open questions in the interpretation of the recent creation of the first matter-wave bright soliton train [Nature (London) 417, 150 (2002)]] are addressed. It is shown that primary transverse collapse, followed by secondary collapse induced by soliton-soliton interactions, produces bursts of hot atoms at different time scales.     

Instability and evolution of nonlinearly interacting water waves

We consider the modulational instability of nonlinearly interacting two-dimensional waves in deep water, which are described by a pair of two-dimensional coupled nonlinear Schr?dinger equations. We derive a nonlinear dispersion relation. The latter is numerically analyzed to obtain the regions and the associated growth rates of the modulational instability. Furthermore, we follow the long term evolution of the latter by means of computer simulations of the governing nonlinear equations and demonstrate the formation of localized coherent wave envelopes. Our results should be useful for understanding the formation and nonlinear propagation characteristics of large-amplitude freak waves in deep water.     

Dynamical superfluid-insulator transition in a chain of weakly coupled bose-Einstein condensates

We predict a dynamical classical superfluid-insulator transition in a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in an optical and a magnetic potential. In the tight-binding limit, this system realizes an array of weakly coupled condensates driven by an external harmonic field. For small displacements of the parabolic trap about the equilibrium position, the condensates coherently oscillate in the array. For large displacements, the condensates remain localized on the side of the harmonic trap with a randomization of the relative phases. The superfluid-insulator transition is due to a discrete modulational instability, occurring when the condensate center of mass velocity is larger than a critical value.     

Modulational Instability of （1 ＋ 1）-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate with Three-Body Interatomic Interaction

The modulational instability of Bose-Einstein condensate with three-body interatomic interaction and external harmonic trapping potential is investigated. Both of our analytical and numerical results show that the external potential will either cause the excitation of modulationally unstable modes or restrain the modulationally unstable modes from growing.     

Generation of dark-bright soliton trains in superfluid-superfluid counterflow

The dynamics of two penetrating superfluids exhibit an intriguing variety of nonlinear effects. Using two distinguishable components of a Bose-Einstein condensate, we investigate the counterflow of two superfluids in a narrow channel. We present the first experimental observation of trains of dark-bright solitons generated by the counterflow. Our observations are theoretically interpreted by three-dimensional numerical simulations for the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations and the analysis of a jump in the two relatively flowing components' densities. Counterflow-induced modulational instability for this miscible system is identified as the central process in the dynamics.     

On diffraction and dispersion effect on three wave interaction

The effect of diffraction and dispersion on three wave coupling is investigated. The instability leading to space modulation of packets is obtained. This instability and its nonlinear stage is similar to modulational instability of quasimonochromatic waves. The localized structures (solitons and waveguide) can be a result of the instability. We demonstrate that one-dimensional and two-dimensional such structures are unstable. The existence of stable three-dimensional solitons is shown.     

Modulational instability and discrete breathers in the discrete cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We investigate the properties of modulational instability and discrete breathers in the cubic-quintic discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We analyze the regions of modulational instabilities of nonlinear plane waves. Using the Page approach [J.B. Page, Phys. Rev. B 41 (1990) 7835], we derive the conditions for the existence and stability for bright discrete breather solutions. It is shown that the quintic nonlinearity brings qualitatively new conditions for stability of strongly localized modes. The application to the existence of localized modes in the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with three-body interactions in an optical lattice is discussed. The numerical simulations agree with the analytical predictions.     

Modulational instability of matter waves under strong nonlinearity management

We study modulational instability of matter-waves in Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) under strong temporal nonlinearity-management. Both BEC in an optical lattice and homogeneous BEC are considered in the framework of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, averaged over rapid time modulations. For a BEC in an optical lattice, it is shown that the loop formed on a dispersion curve undergoes transformation due to the nonlinearity-management. A critical strength for the nonlinearity-management strength is obtained that changes the character of instability of an attractive condensate. MI is shown to occur below (above) the threshold for the positive (negative) effective mass. The enhancement of number of atoms in the nonlinearity-managed gap soliton is revealed.     

Modulational Instability of Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices with Three-Body Interactions

Motivated by the recent experiment [Nature 530(2016) 194] in which a stable droplet in a dipolar quantum gas has been created by the interaction-induced instability, we focus on the modulation instability of an optically-trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate with three-body interaction. Within the mean-field level, we analytically solve the discrete cubic-quintic Gross-Pitaevskii equation with dipole-dipole interaction loaded into a deep optical lattice and show how combined effects of the three-body interaction and dipole-dipole interaction on the condition of modulational instability. Our results show that the interplay of the three-body interaction and dipole-dipole interaction can dramatically change the modulation instability condition compared with the ordinary Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We believe that the predicted results in this work can be useful for the future possible experiment of loading a Bose-Einstein condensate of ~(164)Dy atoms with strong magnetic dipole-dipole interaction into an optical lattice.     

Modulational instability in systems with integrating nonlinearity

A new type of modulational instability for coherent as well as partially coherent light in systems with integrating nonlinearity caused by an irreversible process is investigated both experimentally and theoretically. In such systems plane waves never reach the stationary limit and exhibit a nontrivial time dependence resulting in new features of the modulational instability. For example, the modulational frequency of the nonexponentially increasing perturbation with maximum gain decreases while the wave is propagating. The threshold for vanishing modulational instability due to a finite degree of spatial coherence depends only on system parameters and not on the light intensity.     

Unifying treatment of nonequilibrium and unstable dynamics of cold bosonic atom system with time-dependent order parameter in Thermo Field Dynamics

The coupled equations which describe the temporal evolution of the Bose–Einstein condensed system are derived in the framework of nonequilibrium Thermo Field Dynamics. The key element is that they are not the naive assemblages of assumed equations, but are the self-consistent ones derived by appropriate renormalization conditions. While the order parameter is time-dependent, an explicit quasiparticle picture is constructed by a time-dependent expansion. Our formulation is valid even for the system with a unstable condensate, and describes the condensate decay caused by the Landau instability as well as by the dynamical one.     

Photo-induced dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical superlattice

The photo-induced dynamics of cold atoms in a one-dimensional optical superlattice is observed. Steady state distribution of the probability amplitudes and the site population in a one-dimensional optical superlattice is found. It is shown that this solution of the equations, which describes the temporal behavior of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a superlattice, is unstable at the sufficiently high level of boson density. The expression for the increment of modulational instability is obtained on the basis of the linear stability analysis. The numerical examples of non-stationary solutions for boson density in a superlattice for the general model are discussed as applied to both the attraction and repulsion potentials of boson interaction.     

Modulational instability and complex dynamics of confined matter-wave solitons

We study the formation of bright solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate of 7Li atoms induced by a sudden change in the sign of the scattering length from positive to negative, as reported in a recent experiment [Nature (London) 417, 150 (2002)]]. The numerical simulations are performed by using the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a dissipative three-body term. We show that a number of bright solitons is produced and this can be interpreted in terms of the modulational instability of the time-dependent macroscopic wave function of the Bose condensate. In particular, we derive a simple formula for the number of solitons that is in good agreement with the numerical results. We find that during the motion of the soliton train in an axial harmonic potential the number of solitonic peaks changes in time and the density of individual peaks shows an intermittent behavior.     

具有饱和非线性的非克尔光纤的调制不稳定性

理论上分析了当存在高阶色散时具有饱和非线性的非克尔光纤的调制不稳定性.三阶色散对调制不稳定性没有影响,四阶色散效应导致在正常和反常色散区出现了新的调制不稳定区.并且对比了不同他和参数的增益谱,在新的调制不稳定区,发现同样有一个临界调制频率对应两个入射功率的现象.     

异核两组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中暗孤子的形成及其性质

数值模拟准一维异核两组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体在谐振子势阱中的运动,研究调制不稳定性条件(MI条件)下暗孤子的形成及其性质.在调制不稳定性条件下,凝聚体基态形成后,瞬间使组分间的相互排斥力变为相互吸引力,实时演化可以形成暗孤子.对各组分自身相互作用系数分析发现,它们之间满足一定关系时暗孤子在不同的组分内形成,而且形成的暗孤子在谐振子势阱中呈现周期性的往返对穿运动.讨论了形成暗孤子数目与两种粒子的质量比率和粒子数比率存在的关系.