Soliton "molecules": robust clusters of light bullets
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2009-09-29 v1
Abstract
We show how to generate robust self-sustained clusters of soliton bullets-spatiotemporal (optical or matter-wave) solitons. The clusters carry an orbital angular momentum being supported by competing nonlinearities. The "atoms" forming the "molecule" are fully three-dimensional solitons linked via a staircase-like macroscopic phase. Recent progress in generating atomic-molecular coherent mixing in Bose-Einstein condensates might open potential scenarios for the experimental generation of these soliton molecules with matter-waves.
Cite
@article{arxiv.nlin/0301029,
title = {Soliton "molecules": robust clusters of light bullets},
author = {Lucian-Cornel Crasovan and Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Dumitru Mihalache and Lluis Torner and Yuri S. Kivshar and Victor M. Perez-Garcia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0301029},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 figures, 5 pages. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E