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Incoherent matter-wave solitons: Mutual self-trapping of a Bose-Einstein condensate and its surrounding thermal cloud

H. Buljan, M. Segev, A. Vardi

cond-mat.otherarXiv:cond-mat/0410421

Abstract

We show that a Bose-Einstein condensate and a portion of its surrounding thermal cloud can exhibit mutual self-trapping, supported by the attractive particle interactions, and not by the external confinement. This type of dynamics is characteristic of composite random-phase solitons.

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