Observation of Jones-Roberts solitons in a paraxial quantum fluid of light

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08383v2
• Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:52:24 GMT
• Title: Observation of Jones-Roberts solitons in a paraxial quantum fluid of light
• Authors: Myrann Baker-Rasooli, Tangui Aladjidi, Nils A. Krause, Ashton S. Bradley, Quentin Glorieux,
• Abstract summary: We create a superfluid of light using paraxial, near-resonant laser beam propagating through a hot rubidium vapor.<n>We excite a bounded vortex-antivortex dipole in the superfluid and observe its transition to a rarefaction pulse and back.<n>We examine analytically and experimentally the superfluid velocity correlations, observing a transfer of coherence from incompressible to compressible velocity of the quantum fluid.
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• Abstract: We investigate the formation and dynamics of Jones-Roberts solitons in a smoothly inhomogeneous quantum fluid. To do so, we create a superfluid of light using paraxial, near-resonant laser beam propagating through a hot rubidium vapor. We excite a bounded vortex-antivortex dipole in the superfluid and observe its transition to a rarefaction pulse and back, in agreement with the seminal predictions of Jones and Roberts. Employing an analogy with ray optics, we calculate the trajectory of the interacting vortices, deriving an effective refractive index from the inhomogeneous fluid density. Finally, we examine analytically and experimentally the superfluid velocity correlations, observing a transfer of coherence from incompressible to compressible velocity of the quantum fluid, a direct signature of the dynamical conversion between vortices and rarefaction pulse.

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