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Tomographic-probability description of solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates

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Tomographic-probability representation for soliton solutions of Gross-Pitaevskii equation is introduced. Tomograms of the wavefunction describing bright soliton states of Bose-Einstein condensate are obtained in the presence of a quadratic external potential.

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  1. Istituto di Cibernetica “Eduardo Caianiello” del CNR Comprensorio “A. Olivetti” Fabbr. 70, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078, Pozzuoli (NA), Italy

    S. De Nicola

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Universitá “Federico II” di Napoli and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126, Napoli, Italy

    R. Fedele

  3. P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii Prospect 53, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    M. A. Man’ko & V. I. Man’ko

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Received: 18 September 2003, Published online: 23 December 2003

PACS:

03.75.Lm Tunneling, Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vortices and topological excitations - 03.65.Wj State reconstruction, quantum tomography - 42.65.-k Nonlinear optics

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Nicola, S.D., Fedele, R., Man’ko, M.A. et al. Tomographic-probability description of solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates. Eur. Phys. J. B 36, 385–390 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2003-00357-2

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