18–20 May 2026
Convention Centre by the Observatory
Europe/Berlin timezone

Breathing and Fission of Magnetic Multi-solitons

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1h 45m
Convention Centre by the Observatory

Convention Centre by the Observatory

Geismar Landstraße 11 37083 Göttingen

Speaker

Guillaume Brochier (MPQ)

Description

We report the deterministic experimental realization and controlled fission of magnetic multi-soliton states in a uniform quasi-one-dimensional immiscible two-component Bose gas. We explore the Manakov regime, where the spin dynamics is well-described by the easy-axis Landau-Lifshitz equation (LLE). The gauge equivalence between the easy-axis LLE and the attractive nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) enables the direct construction of magnetic multi-solitons from the well-known NLSE solutions. We observe the two- and three- soliton states, which exhibit robust breathing in quantitative agreement with integrable theory. By introducing a weak, localized perturbation, we controllably break integrability and induce the splitting of a two-soliton into its fundamental constituents. This process reveals the composite structure of multi-soliton states and realizes an experimental analog of the inverse scattering transform.

Project FOR5522 Fellow

Authors

Guillaume Brochier (MPQ) Dr Yifan Li (LKB) Ms Sarah Philips (LKB) Ms Sarah Wattellier (LKB) Dr Franco Rabec (LKB) Prof. Sylvain Nascimbene (LKB) Prof. Jean Dalibard (LKB) Prof. Jérôme Beugnon (LKB)

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