Multiple dark-bright solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

D. Yan,1 J. J. Chang,2 C. Hamner,2 P. G. Kevrekidis,1 P. Engels,2 V. Achilleos,3 D. J. Frantzeskakis,3 R. Carretero-González,4,* and P. Schmelcher5 1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-4515, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA 3Department of Physics, University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, Zografos, GR-157 84 Athens, Greece 4Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Group, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 92182-7720, USA 5Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany (Received 21 April 2011; published 28 November 2011)