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Bubbles and W-shaped solitons in Kerr media with fractional diffraction

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2021-11-02 v2 Optics

Abstract

We demonstrate that, with the help of a Gaussian potential barrier, dark modes in the form of a local depression ("bubbles") can be supported by the repulsive Kerr nonlinearity in combination with fractional dimension. Similarly, W-shaped modes are supported by a double potential barrier. Families of the modes are constructed in a numerical form, and also by means of the Thomas-Fermi and variational approximations. All these modes are stable, which is predicted by computation of eigenvalues for small perturbations and confirmed by direct numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2104.04287,
  title  = {Bubbles and W-shaped solitons in Kerr media with fractional diffraction},
  author = {Liangwei Zeng and Boris A. Malomed and Dumitru Mihalache and Yi Cai and Xiaowei Lu and Qifan Zhu and Jingzhen Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.04287},
  year   = {2021}
}

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to be published in Nonlinear Dynamics