Solitons and solitonic vortices in a strip

Abstract

We study the ground state of the Gross–Pitaevskii energy in a strip, with a phase imprinting condition, motivated by recent experiments on matter waves solitons. We prove that when the width of the strip is small, the ground state is a one dimensional soliton. On the other hand, when the width is large, the ground state is a solitonic vortex. We provide an explicit expression for the limiting phase of the solitonic vortex as the size of the strip is large: it has the same behavior as the soliton in the infinite direction and decays exponentially due to the geometry of the strip, instead of algebraically as vortices in the whole space.