Tuesday, October 16, 2012

1210.3994 (Lauri Toikka et al.)

The Snake Instability of Ring Dark Solitons in Toroidally Trapped
Bose-Einstein Condensates
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Lauri Toikka, Kalle-Antti Suominen
We show that the onset of the snake instability of ring dark solitons requires a broken symmetry. We also elucidate explicitly the connection between imaginary Bogoliubov modes and the snake instability, predicting the number of vortex-anti-vortex pairs produced. In addition, we propose a simple model to give a physical motivation as to why the snake instability takes place. Finally, we show that tight confinement in a toroidal potential actually enhances soliton decay due to inhibition of soliton motion.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3994

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