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This article offers a comprehensive survey of results obtained for solitons and complex nonlinear wave patterns supported by purely nonlinear lattices (NLs), which represent a spatially periodic modulation of the local strength and sign of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Boris A. Malomed , Lluis Torner

In this paper we study dynamics of solitons in the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with an external potential in all dimensions except for 2. For a certain class of nonlinearities such an equation has solutions which are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhou Gang , I. M. Sigal

We study numerically the nonintegrable dynamics of coherent, solitonic, nonlinear waves, in a spatially nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger equation relevant to realistic modelling of optical systems: the Schrodinger-Helmholtz equation. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-15 Clement Colleaux , Jonathan Skipp , Sergey Nazarenko , Jason Laurie

Fullerenes and nanotubes consist of a large number of carbon atoms sitting on the sites of a regular lattice. For pratical reasons it is often useful to approximate the equations on this lattice in terms of the continuous equation. At the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

Solitons are universal nonlinear excitations that appear in settings as varied as optics, water waves, and quantum gases [1-5]. While reduced models of soliton dynamics are well established, their validity and dynamical behaviour in…

We examine saturation properties of a quark-based picture of nuclear matter. Soliton matter consisting of nonlocal confining solitons is used to model nuclear matter. Each composite nucleon is described by a non-topological soliton as given…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles W. Johnson , George Fai

Soliton motion in some external potentials is studied using the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. Solitons are scattered by a potential wall. Solitons propagate almost freely or are trapped in a periodic potential. The critical kinetic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Sakaguchi , M. Tamura

Coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations (CNLS) with an external elliptic function potential model a quasi one--dimensional interacting two-component Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a standing light wave. New families of stationary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. A. Kostov , V. Z. Enol'skii , V. S. Gerdjikov , V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno

Solitons are localised wave disturbances that propagate without changing shape, a result of a nonlinear interaction which compensates for wave packet dispersion. Individual solitons may collide, but a defining feature is that they pass…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-10 Jason H. V. Nguyen , Paul Dyke , De Luo , Boris A. Malomed , Randall G. Hulet

We consider the novel nonlinear model in (1 + 1)-dimensions for Dirac spinors recently introduced by Alexeeva, Barashenkov, and Saxena [1] (ABS model), which admits an exact explicit solitary-wave (soliton for short) solution. The charge,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-21 Franz G. Mertens , Bernardo Sánchez-Rey , Niurka R. Quintero

The reduced dynamics for dark and bright soliton chains in the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is used to study the behavior of collective compression waves. For appropriate conditions, the reduced dynamics derived from…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-03-23 Manjun Ma , R. Navarro , R. Carretero-Gonzalez

We study soliton dynamics in a system of two linearly coupled discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, which describe the dynamics of a two-component Bose gas, coupled by an electromagnetic field, and confined in a strong optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-20 A. Trombettoni , H. E. Nistazakis , Z. Rapti , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

In a benchmark dynamical-lattice model in three dimensions, the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger equation, we find discrete vortex solitons with various values of the topological charge $S$. Stability regions for the vortices with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , D. J. Frantzeskakis , R. Carretero-González

Solitons and breathers are localized solutions of integrable systems that can be viewed as "particles'' of complex statistical objects called soliton and breather gases. In view of the growing evidence of their ubiquity in fluids and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-13 Gennady El , Alexander Tovbis

A new type of long-lived solitary structures for paraxial optics with two circular polarizations of light in a homogeneous defocusing Kerr medium with an anomalous group velocity dispersion has been revealed numerically in the coupled…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-31 Victor P. Ruban

In this paper, we study the spectral theory of soliton condensates - a special limit of soliton gases - for the focusing NLS (fNLS). In particular, we analyze the kinetic equation for the fNLS circular condensate, which represents the first…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-01 Alexander Tovbis , Fudong Wang

A method for approximating dark soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation under the influence of perturbations is presented. The problem is broken into an inner region, where core of the soliton resides, and an outer region,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mark J. Ablowitz , Sean D. Nixon , Theodoros P. Horikis , Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis

Soliton strings in mode-locked lasers are obtained using a variant of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation, appropriately modified to model power (intensity) and energy saturation. This equation goes beyond the well-known master equation…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-05 Mark J. Ablowitz , Theodoros P. Horikis , Sean D. Nixon

Non-equilibrium random fluctuations of non-thermal nature are a salient feature of active matter. In this work, we consider the collective excitations of active systems at high density, focusing on a one-dimensional chain of elastically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

The effects of long-range intermolecular interactions on characteristic features of soliton bound states, consisting of localized excitons and polaritons in molecular crystals interacting with a high-intensity optical field, are…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-17 E. Nji Nde Aboringong , Alain M. Dikandé