A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Reversible decay of ring dark solitons
Authors: L A Toikka, K-A Suominen
Publisher: Institute of Physics
Publication year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Journal acronym: J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.
Article number: 085301
Volume: 47
Issue: 8
Number of pages: 7
ISSN: 0953-4075
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/47/8/085301(external)
Web address : http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-4075/47/8/085301/(external)
We show how boundary effects can cause a Bose–Einstein condensate to periodically oscillate between a (circular) array of quantized vortex–antivortex pairs and a (ring) dark soliton. If the boundary is restrictive enough, the ring dark soliton becomes long-lived.
