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Volume 115, Number 2, July 2016
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| Article Number | 20010 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/115/20010 | |
| Published online | 26 August 2016 | |
Probing surface states with many-body wave packet scattering
1 Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, IRSAMC, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS - Toulouse, France
2 Laboratoire Collisions, Agrégats, Réactivité, IRSAMC, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS - Toulouse, France
Received: 1 March 2016
Accepted: 30 July 2016
The scattering of 1D matter wave bright solitons on attractive potentials enables one to populate bound states, a feature impossible with noninteracting wave packets. Compared to noninteracting states, the populated states are renormalized by the attractive interactions between atoms and keep the same topology. This renormalization can even transform a virtual state into a bound state. By switching off adiabatically the interactions, the trapped wave packets converge towards the true noninteracting bound states. Our numerical studies show how such scattering experiments can reveal and characterize the surface states of a periodic structure whose translational invariance has been broken. We provide evidence that the corresponding 3D regime should be accessible with current techniques.
PACS: 03.75.Lm – Tunneling, Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vortices, and topological excitations / 03.75.-b – Matter waves / 37.10.Jk – Atoms in optical lattices
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