Investigation of oscillations of a soliton of a bose condensate of atoms in a trap in the limit of small oscillations of its walls

Abstract

The motion of the center of a soliton in a trap with oscillating walls is studied analytically and numerically for the case in which the intrinsic frequency of small soliton oscillations in the equilibrium state considerably exceeds the frequency of wall oscillations. this problem can be solved either by applying the gross–pitaevskii equation, which most exactly describes the behavior of the soliton in the trap, or by using the approximate, “mechanical,” equation of motion of the newtonian type for the center of the soliton. an approximate analytical solution of the mechanical equation is obtained and is compared with the numerical solution of the newton equation, while the latter solution is compared with the numerical solution of the gross–pitaevskii equation. good agreement between the first two solutions is revealed. it is also shown that there is a range of parameters in which the numerical solutions of the newton and gross–pitaevskii equations are closest to each other. the frequency-sweeping effect of soliton center oscillations is revealed. an approximate analytical formula for the limiting frequency of these oscillations is obtained and the numerical analysis of this phenomenon is performed.