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We demonstrate the existence of fundamental and dipole interface solitons in one-dimensional thermal nonlinear media with a step in linear refractive index. Fundamental interface solitons are found to be always stable and the stability of…

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Surface soliton formation and lattice soliton dynamics at an interface between two inhomogeneous periodic media are studied in terms of an effective particle approach. The global reflection, transmission and trapping characteristics are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yannis Kominis , Kyriakos Hizanidis

We address vortex solitons supported by optical lattices featuring modulation of both the linear and nonlinear refractive indices. We find that when the modulation is out-of-phase the competition between both effects results in remarkable…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

We study solitons arising in a system describing the interaction of a two-dimensional discrete hexagonal lattice with an additional electron field (or, in general, an exciton field). We assume that this interaction is electron-phonon-like.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Betti Hartmann , Wojtek Zakrzewski

We study two-color surface solitons in two-dimensional photonic lattices with quadratic nonlinear response. We demonstrate that such parametrically coupled optical localized modes can exist in the corners or at the edges of a square…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Mario I. Molina , Yuri S. Kivshar

Fundamental solitons pinned to the interface between three semi-infinite one-dimensional nonlinear dynamical chains, coupled at a single site, are investigated. The light propagation in the respective system with the self-attractive on-site…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Stojanovic , A. Maluckov , Lj. Hadzievski , B. A. Malomed

We study trapping and propagation of a matter-wave soliton through the interface between uniform medium and a nonlinear optical lattice (NOL). Different regimes for transmission of a broad and a narrow soliton are investigated. Reflections…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Ravil M. Galimzyanov , Marijana Brtka , Lauro Tomio

We discover the existence of vortex solitons supported by the surface between two optical lattices imprinted in Kerr-type nonlinear media. Such solitons can feature strongly noncanonical profiles, and we found that their properties are…

We study the influences to the discrete soliton (DS) by introducing linearly long-range nonlocal interactions, which give rise to the off-diagonal elements of the linearly coupled matrix in the discrete nonlinear schrodinger equation to be…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-24 Zhijie Mai , Shenhe Fu , Jianxiong Wu , Yongyao Li

We predict the existence and study the basic properties of strongly asymmetric matter wave solitons that form at the interface produced by regions with different inter-atomic interaction strengths in pancake Bose-Einstein condensates. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Fangwei Ye , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lluis Torner

Resonant mode interactions in weakly nonlinear multi-dimensional lattices and related effects are described. We concentrate on formal description of the phenomenon and consider as examples mode interactions and evolution equations for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. v. Konotop

We study nonlinear surface modes in two-dimensional {\em anisotropic} periodic photonic lattices and demonstrate that, in a sharp contrast to one-dimensional discrete surface solitons, the mode threshold power is lower at the surface, and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 Rodrigo A. Vicencio , Sergej Flach , Mario I. Molina , Yuri S. Kivshar

We discover that at the edge of optical lattice imprinted in saturable nonlinear media one-dimensional surface solitons exist only within a band of light intensities, and that they cease to exist when the lattice depth exceeds an upper…

We study discrete solitons in zigzag discrete waveguide arrays with different types of linear mixing between nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor couplings. The waveguide array is constructed from two layers of one-dimensional (1D)…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-04-14 Jinzhou Hu , Shulan Li , Zhaopin Chen , Jiantao Lu , Bin Liu , Yongyao Li

We analyze nonlinear collective effects near surfaces of semi-infinite periodic systems with multi-gap transmission spectra and introduce a novel concept of multi-gap surface solitons as mutually trapped surface states with the components…

We study light propagation in waveguide arrays made in Kerr nonlinear media with a transverse refractive index gradient, and we find that the presence of the refractive index gradient leads to the appearance of a number of new soliton…

We predict the existence and address the stability of two-dimensional surface solitons featuring topologically complex shapes, including dipoles, vortices, and bound states of vortex solitons, at the interface of nonlocal thermal media.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Fangwei Ye , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lluis Torner

We report on existence and properties of discrete gap solitons in zigzag arrays of alternating waveguides with positive and negative refractive indices. Zigzag quasi-one-dimensional configuration of waveguide array introduces strong…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-16 Alexander A. Dovgiy , Ilya S. Besedin

We address the existence and stability of two-dimensional solitons in optical or matter-wave media, which are supported by purely nonlinear lattices in the form of a periodic array of cylinders with self-focusing nonlinearity, embedded into…

Existence, stability and dynamics of soliton complexes, centered at the site of a single transverse link connecting two parallel 2D (two-dimensional) lattices, are investigated. The system with the on-site cubic self-focusing nonlinearity…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 M. D. Petrovic , G. Gligoric , A. Maluckov , Lj. Hadzievski , B. A. Malomed