The dynamical evolution of spatial patterns in a complex system can reveal the underlying structure and stability of stationary states. As a model system we employ a two-component rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate at the transition from miscible to immiscible with the additional control of linear interconversion. Excellent agreement is found between the detailed experimental time evolution and the corresponding numerical mean-field computations. Analysing the dynamics of the system, we find clear indications of stationary states that we term nonlinear dressed states. A steady state bifurcation analysis reveals a smooth connection of these states with dark-bright soliton solutions of the integrable two-component Manakov model.Bose-Einstein condensates have been established over the past two decades as a prototypical testbed for exciting developments ranging from nonlinear dynamics and wave phenomena to superfluid features and quantum phase transitions [1][2][3][4][5]. Especially two-component ultracold gases are ideal for the study of the connection of topological solutions of integrable systems and their variants in the presence of different types of perturbations.The properties of multi-component Bose Einstein condensates have been studied in numerous contexts. In particular, early experimental efforts produced binary mixtures of two different hyperfine states of 23 Na [6] and of 87 Rb [7]. The progressively improving experimental control has enabled detailed observations of phase separation phenomena and associated multi-component dynamics [8][9][10][11][12][13]. More recently, the mixing-demixing dynamics has been controlled both in pseudo-spinor (twocomponent) [14] and spinor systems [15] via external coupling fields. As a result, formation of domain walls has been observed. In these systems additional topological excitations such as dark-bright solitons do exist. These have been experimentally realized building on dynamical instabilities present in the regime of two counterflowing superfluids [16]. The ability of phase imprinting offers a controlled path for the generation of individual such topological states [17]. All these observations are adequately captured by the mean-field description. Thus, the well established integrable Manakov model [18], i.e. two nonlinearly interacting classical fields in one dimension at the miscibility-immiscibility threshold, forms a basis for understanding the corresponding characteristics. This model is also examined in other physical systems such as nonlinear polarization optics where multiple dark-bright and dark-dark soliton solutions can be systematically constructed [19]. * nlds@matterwave.de As Ω increases further, the amplitude of the oscillatory dynamics decreases and in the large coupling limit the system is well approximated by stationary dressed states.Here, we study the nonlinear dynamics of a twocomponent Bose gas at the transition from miscible to immiscible, arising through linear interconversion between the two components. In particular, we utilize a Rabi c...