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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Controlled generation of 3D vortices in driven atomic Josephson junctions.

Vijay Pal Singh, Ludwig Mathey, Herwig Ott, Luigi Amico

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Vijay Pal SinghQuantum Research Center, Technology Innovation Institute, Masdar City 9639, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0001-8881-978X
Ludwig MatheyZentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien and Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 22761, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4341-7335
Herwig OttDepartment of Physics, Research Center OPTIMAS, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern 67663, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3155-2719
Luigi AmicoQuantum Research Center, Technology Innovation Institute, Masdar City 9639, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-9024-5727

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 277625399Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 390715994
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Abstract

We propose an ac-driven atomic Josephson junction as a clean and tunable source of three-dimensional (3D) solitary waves in quantum fluids. Depending on the height of the junction barrier, the emitted excitations appear as vortex rings at low velocity or vorticity-free rarefaction pulses near the sound velocity, thus spanning the complete Jones-Roberts family of solitons. The Shapiro-step phenomenon renders the emission deterministic: on the first, second, third Shapiro steps, the junction ejects one, two, and three solitary excitations per drive cycle. This enables controlled generation of single- and multiexcitation configurations, allowing detailed studies of the full crossover between vortex rings and rarefaction pulses and their interaction dynamics. By Shapiro phase locking, multiexcitations are emitted in succession and interact, revealing leapfrogging motion of two and three coaxial rings and their decay via boundary-assisted, sound-mediated processes. This ac-driven protocol establishes a compact and reproducible platform for generating, classifying, and controlling 3D solitonic excitations, paving the way for precision studies of nonlinear vortex dynamics, dissipation, and quantum turbulence in trapped superfluids.

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driven Josephson junctionsJones-Roberts excitationstopological defectsultracold atoms

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