title: Dynamics of dark solitons in a trapped superfluid fermi gas.
abstract: We study soliton oscillations in a trapped superfluid Fermi gas across the Bose-Einstein condensate to Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BEC-BCS) crossover. We derive an exact equation for the oscillation period in terms of observable quantities, which we confirm by solving the time-dependent Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations. Hence we reveal the appearance and dynamics of solitons across the crossover, and show that the period dramatically increases as the soliton becomes shallower on the BCS side of the resonance. Finally, we propose an experimental protocol to test our predictions.
authors.affiliation: INO-CNR BEC Center, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, Povo, Italy.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dalfovo
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Pitaevskii
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stringari