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Dark-Bright Soliton Interactions Beyond The Integrable Limit, G. Katsimiga, J. Stockhofe, Panos Kevrekidis, P. Schmelcher
Dark-Bright Soliton Interactions Beyond The Integrable Limit, G. Katsimiga, J. Stockhofe, Panos Kevrekidis, P. Schmelcher
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In this work we present a systematic theoretical analysis regarding dark-bright solitons and their interactions, motivated by recent advances in atomic two-component repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensates. In particular, we study analytically via a two-soliton ansatz adopted within a variational formulation the interaction between two dark-bright solitons in a homogeneous environment beyond the integrable regime, by considering general inter/intra-atomic interaction coefficients. We retrieve the possibility of a fixed point in the case where the bright solitons are out of phase. As the inter-component interaction is increased, we also identify an exponential instability of the two-soliton state, associated with a subcritical pitchfork …