Cold atomic gases are perfect laboratories for realization of quantum simulators. In order to simulate solid state systems in the presence of magnetic fields special effort has to be made because atoms are charge neutral. There are different methods for realization of artificial magnetic fields, that is the creation of specific conditions so that the motion of neutral particles mimics the dynamics of charged particles in an effective magnetic field. Here, we consider adiabatic motion of atoms in the presence of an evanescent wave. Theoretical description of the adiabatic motion involves artificial vector and scalar potentials related to the Berry phases. Due to the large gradient of the evanescent field amplitude, the potentials can be strong enough to induce measurable effects in cold atomic gases. We show that the resulting artificial magnetic field is able to induce vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped close to a surface of a prism where the evanescent wave is created. We also analyze motion of an atomic cloud released from a magneto-optical trap that falls down on the surface of the prism. The artificial magnetic field is able to reflect falling atoms that can be observed experimentally.

We consider dark soliton in a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of a weak disorder potential. Deformation of the soliton shape is analyzed within the Bogoliubov approach and by employing expansion in eigenstates of the P\"oschl-Teller Hamiltonian. Comparison of the results with the numerical simulations indicates that the linear response analysis reveals good agreement even if the strength of the disorder is of the order of the chemical potential of the system. In the second part of the paper we concentrate on quantum nature of the dark soliton and demonstrate that the soliton may reveal Anderson localization in the presence of a disorder. The Anderson localized soliton may decay due to quasi-particle excitations induced by the disorder. However, we show that the corresponding lifetime is much longer than condensate lifetime in a typical experiment.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.