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Linear Maxwell equations for transverse magnetic (TM) polarized fields support single frequency surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) localized at the interface of a metal and a dielectric. Metals are typically dispersive, i.e. the dielectric…

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The combination of linear and nonlinear potentials, both shaped as a single well, enables competition between the confinement and expulsion induced by the former and latter potentials, respectively. We demonstrate that this setting leads to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-18 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Mikhail E. Lebedev , Georgy L. Alfimov , Boris A. Malomed

We predict the existence of surface plasmons polaritons at the interface between a metal and a periodically modulated dielectric medium, and find an unusual multi-branched dispersion curve of surface and bulk modes. The branches are…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-17 Lior Bar-Hillel , Yonatan Plotnik , Ohad Segal , Mordechai Segev

We examine numerically vortex families near band edges of the Bloch wave spectrum in the Gross--Pitaevskii equation with a two-dimensional periodic potential and in the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation. We show that besides vortex…

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Models of two-dimensional (2D) traps, with the double-well structure in the third direction, for Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) are introduced, with attractive or repulsive interactions between atoms. The models are based on systems of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Arthur Gubeskys , Boris A. Malomed

It is commonly held that a necessary condition for the existence of solitons in nonlinear-wave systems is that the soliton's frequency (spatial or temporal) must not fall into the continuous spectrum of radiation modes. However, this is not…

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We introduce a new species of gap solitons (GSs) supported by an azimuthally modulated guiding ring in defocusing cubic media. The periodicity in the azimuthal direction strongly modifies properties and existence domains of GSs. In addition…

We elaborate a mechanism for the formation of stable solitons of the semi-vortex type (with vorticities 0 and 1 in their two components), populating a finite bandgap in the spectrum of the spin-orbit-coupled binary Bose-Einstein condensate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 H. Sakaguchi , B. A. Malomed

We recently formulated the canonical boundary-value problem of propagation of surface plasmon-polariton (SPP) waves along the direction of periodicity of a one-dimensional photonic crystal. Here we present the general formulation of that…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-23 Mehran Rasheed , Muhammad Faryad

New evidence of surprising robustness of solitary-wave solutions of the Serre-Green-Naghdi (SGN) equations is presented on the basis of high-resolution numerical simulations conducted using a novel well-balanced finite-volume method. SGN…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-05-14 Qingcheng Fu , Alexander Kurganov , Mingye Na , Vladimir Zeitlin

The purpose of this work is to introduce a concept of traveling waves in the setting of periodic metric graphs. It is known that the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation on periodic metric graphs can be reduced asymptotically on long…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Stefan Le Coz , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Guido Schneider

We produce families of two-dimensional gap solitons (GSs) maintained by moir\'{e} lattices (MLs) composed of linear and nonlinear sublattices, with the defocusing sign of the nonlinearity. Depending on the angle between the sublattices, the…

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We consider the global bifurcation problem for spatially periodic traveling waves for two-dimensional gravity-capillary vortex sheets. The two fluids have arbitrary constant, non-negative densities (not both zero), the gravity parameter can…

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We investigate, analytically and numerically, families of bright solitons in a system of two linearly coupled nonlinear Schrodinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equations, describing two Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in an asymmetric double-well…

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We show the existence of gap-Townes solitons for the multidimensional Gross-Pitaeviskii equation with attractive interactions and in two- and three-dimensional optical lattices. In absence of the periodic potential the solution reduces to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Salerno , F. Kh. Abdullaev , B. B. Baizakov

We analyze the existence of localized waves in the vicinities of the interface between two dielectrics, provided one of them is uniaxial and lossy. We found two families of surface waves, one of them approaching the well-known Dyakonov…

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We consider a class nonlinear Schr\"odinger / Gross-Pitaevskii equations (NLS/GP) with a focusing (attractive) nonlinear potential and symmetric double well linear potential. NLS/GP plays a central role in the modeling of nonlinear optical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-10 Jeremy L. Marzuola , Michael I. Weinstein

We investigate the persistence and regularity of spectral submanifolds (SSMs) in high-dimensional parametric dynamical systems undergoing a Hopf bifurcation. By analyzing how resonances in the linearized spectrum near bifurcation points…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-24 James King , Bálint Kaszás , Gergely Buza , William Jussiau , George Haller