Compressing the atomic cloud in a matter-wave stripe soliton

Abstract

We consider an attractive quasi-one dimensional spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate (SOC BEC) confined in a periodic potential produced by the combination of linear and nonlinear optical lattices, and study the effects of squeezing a stripe soliton by varying the inter-atomic interaction in the nonlinear lattice. It is observed that the nodes on the soliton arising entirely due to the effect of spin-orbit coupling tend to disappear as we increase the squeezing effect to finally get a stable fundamental soliton. This leads us to conclude that external pressure can reduce the effect of spin-orbit coupling in the SOC BEC and even convert the system to a traditional BEC without spin-orbit coupling. We make use of an information theoretic measure to visualize how does the atomic density distribution in the condensate respond to continual reduction in the spin-orbit coupling effect.