Abstract
We consider, analytically and numerically, the dynamics of an atomic Bose–Einstein condensate soliton bouncing in a magnetic or optical trap between two ideal barriers oscillating harmonically with coinciding frequency and opposite phases. There are zones of parametric instability of the soliton’s central position in the trap for certain ranges of the frequency of the barriers’ oscillations. We demonstrate the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence in the Fermi–Ulam scheme for solitons: the soliton’s deviations from the trap’s center grow and decay quasi-periodically in time. The results allow one to excite and investigate various structures of matter waves in traps and to manipulate their localization and dynamics.
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