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04/11/03

Rice Group Publishes Theory Paper on Matter Wave Solitons

In the paper by Randy Hulet's group, in collaboration with Henk Stoof of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, they variationally determine the dynamics of bright soliton trains composed of harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interatomic interactions. In particular, they obtain the interaction potential between two solitons. They also discuss the formation of soliton trains due to the quantum mechanical phase fluctuations of a one-dimensional condensate. See details at the link on Hulet's web page at http://atomcool.rice.edu/publications.htm.

Randy also adds that their image of the Bose/Fermi mixture has been selected to be on NASA's "Astronomy Picture of the Day" website http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap030219.html. A link also exists on the group's web page given above.