Hydrodynamic model of a Bose–Einstein condensate with anisotropic short-range interaction and bright solitons in a repulsive Bose–Einstein condensate

Abstract

A quantum hydrodynamic model is developed for axial symmetric anisotropic short-range interactions. The quantum stress tensor represents the interaction and is derived up to the third order by the interaction radius. The first order by the interaction radius contains the isotropic part only. This leads to interaction in the Gross–Pitaevskii approximation. Terms existing in the third order by the interaction radius are caused by the isotropic and nonisotropic parts of the interaction, and each of them introduces an interaction constant. Therefore, three interaction constants are involved in the model. Atoms, except for alkali and alkali-earth atoms, can have an anisotropic potential of interaction (this has particularly been demonstrated for the lanthanides). Short-wavelength instability caused by nonlocal terms appears in the Bogoliubov spectrum, and the conditions for stable and unstable behavior are described. Bright solitons in a repulsive Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) are studied under the influence of anisotropic short-range interaction in the BEC of one species. The area of existence of bright solitons corresponds to the area of instability of the Bogoliubov spectrum. Approximate reduction of nonlocal nonlinearity to quintic nonlinearity in the bright soliton regime is also demonstrated.