Scattering of bright solitons by disorder

April 2016: The CNRS group is studying experimentally an intriguing aspect of one-dimensional transport, namely that of bright solitons in attractive-interacting bosonic 1D gases. The soliton size has been precisely characterized as a function of the scattering length through three-body losses. Close to the collapse threshold, the solitons are shown to be strongly bound. The...