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Domain walls and bubble droplets in immiscible binary Bose gases

Г. ФилатреллаDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie dell'Università del Sannio, I-82100 Benevento, ItalyBoris A. MalomedDepartment of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, IsraelMario SalernoDipartimento di Fisica “E. R. Caianiello”, CNISM and INFN Gruppo Collegato di Salerno, Università di Salerno, via Giovanni Paolo II Stecca 8-9, I-84084, Fisciano (SA), Italy
2014en
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The existence and stability of domain walls (DWs) and bubble-droplet (BD) states in binary mixtures of quasi-one-dimensional ultracold Bose gases with inter- and intraspecies repulsive interactions is considered. Previously, DWs were studied by means of coupled systems of Gross-Pitaevskii equations (GPEs) with cubic terms, which model immiscible binary Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We address immiscible BECs with two- and three-body repulsive interactions, as well as binary Tonks--Girardeau (TG) gases, using systems of GPEs with cubic and quintic nonlinearities for the binary BEC, and coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with quintic terms for the TG gases. Exact DW solutions are found for the symmetric BEC mixture, with equal intraspecies scattering lengths. Stable asymmetric DWs in the BEC mixtures with dissimilar interactions in the two components, as well as of symmetric and asymmetric DWs in the binary TG gas, are found by means of numerical and approximate analytical methods. In the BEC system, DWs can be easily put in motion by phase imprinting. Combining a DW and anti-DW on a ring, we construct BD states for both the BEC and TG models. These consist of a dark soliton in one component (the ``bubble''), and a bright soliton (the ``droplet'') in the other. In the BEC system, these composite states are mobile, too.

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