title: Solitons as the early stage of quasicondensate formation during evaporative cooling.
abstract: We calculate the evaporative cooling dynamics of trapped one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates for parameters leading to a range of condensates and quasicondensates in the final equilibrium state, using the classical fields method. We confirm that solitons are created during the evaporation process by the Kibble-Zurek mechanism, but subsequently dissipate during thermalization. However, their signature remains in the phase coherence length, which is approximately conserved during dissipation in this system.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotników, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Witkowska
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Deuar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gajda
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rzążewski