T. Congy 1 A. Kamchatnov 2 N. Pavloff 1
Physical Review A, American Physical Society, 2016, 93, pp.043613
We consider a quasi-one-dimensional two-component Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a coherent coupling between its components, such as realized in spin-orbit coupled condensates. We study how nonlinearity modifies the dynamics of the elementary excitations. The spectrum has two branches which are affected in different ways. The upper branch experiences a modulational instability which is stabilized by a long wave-short wave resonance with the lower branch. The lower branch is stable. In the limit of weak nonlinearity and small dispersion it is described by a Korteweg-de Vries equation or by the Gardner equation, depending on the value of the parameters of the system.
- 1. LPTMS – Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques
- 2. Institute of Spectroscopy