Spontaneous Crystallization And Filamentation Of Solitons In Dipolar   Condensates
  Inter-site interactions play a crucial role in polar gases in optical lattices even in the absence of hopping. We show that due to these long-range interactions a destabilized stack of quasi-one dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates develops a correlated modulational instability in the non-overlapping sites. Interestingly, this density pattern may evolve spontaneously into soliton filaments or a crystal of solitons that can be so created for the first time in ultra-cold gases. These self-assembled structures may be observed under realistic conditions within current experimental feasibilities. 
Kazimierz {\L}akomy, Rejish Nath, Luis Santos
cond-mat.quant-gas physics.atom-ph quant-ph