Non-conservative Lagrangian method for half-dark solitons in spinor non-equilibrium Polariton condensates
In this work I introduce a powerful analytical method to analyze states of non-equilibrium polariton Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). It is shown that the condensate wave functions carrying dark solitons and half-dark solitons can be expressed in terms of the natural parameters of the non-equilibrium system, i.e. the growth and decay rates and the interaction parameters. The derivation is based on a non-conservative Lagrangian formalism, which provides ordinary differential equations for the parameters of the dark soliton solutions in their dynamic environment. Explicit expressions for the stationary solution are stated, which significantly differ from those observed in atomic BEC. Subsequently the method is extended to spinor condensates, which yields ordinary differential equations for the parameters of half-dark solitons. Finally a stationary case with explicit expressions for half-dark solitons is presented as well.