Cascade of Solitonic Excitations in a Superfluid Fermi gas: From Planar Solitons to Vortex Rings and Lines

We follow the time evolution of a superfluid Fermi gas of resonantly interacting [superscript 6]Li atoms after a phase imprint. Via tomographic imaging, we observe the formation of a planar dark soliton, its subsequent snaking, and its decay into a vortex ring, which, in turn, breaks to finally leav...

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Main Authors: Ku, Mark J. H., Mukherjee, Biswaroop, Yefsah, Tarik, Zwierlein, Martin Wolfram, Ku, Mark J. H.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101072
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7155-5412
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8120-8548
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9615-3981