Abstract
We report on the production of matter-wave bright solitons, i.e., one-dimensional matter waves that propagate without dispersion thanks to attractive interactions. The volume of the soliton is studied as a function of the scattering length through three-body losses, revealing peak densities as high as . Our solitons, close to the collapse threshold, are strongly bound and will find applications in fundamental physics and atom interferometry.
- Received 6 September 2016
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.94.053626
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