title: Rydberg-induced solitons: three-dimensional self-trapping of matter waves.
abstract: We propose a scheme for the creation of stable three-dimensional bright solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates, i.e., the matter-wave analog of so-called spatiotemporal "light bullets." Off-resonant dressing to Rydberg nD states is shown to provide nonlocal attractive interactions, leading to self-trapping of mesoscopic atomic clouds by a collective excitation of a Rydberg atom pair. We present detailed potential calculations and demonstrate the existence of stable solitons under realistic experimental conditions by means of numerical simulations.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, 01187 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Maucher
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Henkel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saffman
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Królikowski
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Skupin
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pohl