Abstract
In the present article the snake instability mechanism for dark solitons in superfluid Fermi gases is studied in the context of a recently developed effective field theory [Eur. Phys. J. B 88, 122 (2015)]. This theoretical treatment has proven to be suitable to study stable dark solitons in quasi-1D setups across the BEC-BCS crossover. In this manuscript the nodal plane of the stable soliton solution is perturbed by adding a transverse modulation. The numerical solution of the system of coupled nonlinear differential equations describing the amplitude of the perturbation leads to the instability spectra which are calculated for a wide range of interaction regimes and compared to other theoretical predictions. The maximum transverse size that the atomic cloud can have in order to preserve the stability is estimated, and the effects of spin-imbalance on this critical length are examined, revealing a stabilization of the soliton with increasing imbalance.
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