Supersolitons: solitonic excitations in atomic soliton chains

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Oct 3;101(14):144101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.144101. Epub 2008 Sep 29.

Abstract

We show that, by tuning interactions in nonintegrable vector nonlinear Schrödinger equations modeling Bose-Einstein condensates and other relevant physical systems, it is possible to achieve a regime of elastic particlelike collisions between solitons. This would allow one to construct a Newton's cradle with solitons and supersolitons: localized collective excitations in solitary-wave chains.