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We report results of numerical and analytical studies of the spontaneous symmetry breaking in solitons, both two- and one-dimensional, which are trapped in H-shaped potential profiles, built of two parallel potential troughs linked by a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-03 Nguyen Viet Hung , Marek Trippenbach , Boris A. Malomed

We investigate an attractive atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped by a double-well potential in the axial direction and by a harmonic potential in the transverse directions. We obtain numerically, for the first time, a quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-01-04 Giovanni Mazzarella , Luca Salasnich

In this paper we treat the behavior of Bose Einstein condensates in double square well potentials, both of equal and different depths. For even depth, symmetry preserving solutions to the relevant nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 E. Infeld , P. Ziń , J. Gocałek , M. Trippenbach

We introduce a dual-core system with double symmetry, one between the cores, and one along each core, imposed by the spatial modulation of local nonlinearity in the form of two tightly localized spots, which may be approximated by a pair of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-15 Krzysztof B. Zegadlo , Nguyen Viet Hung , Aleksandr Ramaniuk , Marek Trippenbach , Boris A. Malomed

We study spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB), Josephson oscillation, and self-trapping in a stable, mobile, three-dimensional matter-wave spherical quantum ball self-bound by attractive two-body and repulsive three-body interactions. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-23 S. K. Adhikari

In this work, we consider quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), with spatially varying collisional interactions, trapped in double well potentials. In particular, we study a setup in which such a 'collisionally…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Wang , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. Schmelcher , S. Middelkamp

We introduce a two dimensional model for the Bose-Einstein condensate with both attractive and repulsive nonlinearities. We assume a combination of a double well potential in one direction, and an optical lattice along the perpendicular…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Trippenbach , E. Infeld , J. Gocalek , Michal Matuszewski , M. Oberthaler , B. A. Malomed

A brief introduction to the topic of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in conservative and dissipative nonlinear systems with an underlying double-well-potential structure is given. The reason is a discussion of a recent observation of…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-30 Boris A. Malomed

We study modes trapped in a rotating ring carrying the self-focusing (SF) or defocusing (SDF) cubic nonlinearity and double-well potential $\cos^{2}\theta $, where $\theta $ is the angular coordinate. The model, based on the nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-11 Yongyao Li , Wei Pang , Boris A. Malomed

We propose that the symmetry-breaking bifurcation of coupled topological edge states (CTESs) can be used as a general principle for achieving spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in a nonlinear topological lattice. Using an optical resonator…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-02 Rujiang Li , Letian Xu , Muhammad Imran , Wencai Wang , Yongtao Jia , Ying Liu

We introduce a system of two linearly coupled discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations (DNLSEs), with the coupling constant subject to a rapid temporal modulation. The model can be realized in bimodal Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC).…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-11-23 H. Susanto , P. G. Kevrekidis , F. Kh. Abdullaev , Boris A. Malomed

Considering the coherent nonlinear dynamics in double square well potential we find the example of coexistence of Josephson oscillations with a self-trapping regime. This macroscopic bistability is explained by proving analytically the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Ramaz Khomeriki , Jerome Leon , Stefano Ruffo , Sandro Wimberger

We address symmetry breaking bifurcations (SBBs) in the ground-state (GS) and dipole-mode (DM) solitons of the 1D linearly coupled NLS equations, modeling the propagation of light in a dual-core planar waveguide with the Kerr nonlinearity…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-09-04 Jin Song , Boris A. Malomed , Zhenya Yan

We present an analytical model for the theoretical analysis of spin dynamics and spontaneous symmetry breaking in a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). This allows for an excellent intuitive understanding of the processes and provides…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 M. Scherer , B. Lücke , O. Topic , G. Gebreyesus , F. Deuretzbacher , W. Ertmer , L. Santos , C. Klempt , J. J. Arlt

We consider the dynamical model of a binary bosonic gas trapped in a symmetric dual-core cigar-shaped potential. The setting is modeled by a system of linearly-coupled one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equations with the cubic self-repulsive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-05-15 Bin Liu , Hua-Feng Zhang , Rong-Xuan Zhong , Xi-Liang Zhang , Xi-Zhou Qin , Chunqing Huang , Yong-Yao Li , Boris A. Malomed

We demonstrate that spatial solitons undergo two consecutive spontaneous symmetry breakings (SSBs), with the increase of the total power, in nonlinear photonic crystals (PhCs) built as arrays of alternating linear and nonlinear stripes, in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed , Mingneng Feng , Jianying Zhou

We introduce a model governing the copropagation of two components which represent circular polarizations of light in the optical fiber with relative strength g = 2 of the nonlinear repulsion between the components, and linear coupling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-23 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed

We consider the symmetry breaking of a matter-wave soliton formed by spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) illuminated by a two-spot laser beam. This laser beam introduces spin-orbit (SO) coupling in the BECs such that the SO coupling…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-15 Zhi-Jiang Ye , Yi-Xi Chen , Yi-Yin Zheng , Xiong-Wei Chen , Bin Liu

We consider the NLS equation with a linear double well potential. Symmetry breaking, i.e., the localisation of an order parameter in one of the potential wells that can occur when the system is symmetric, has been studied extensively.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Rahmi Rusin , Robert Marangell , Hadi Susanto

We report on the first experimental observation of spontaneous mirror symmetry breaking (SSB) in coherently driven-dissipative coupled optical cavities. SSB is observed as the breaking of the spatial or mirror Z2 symmetry between two…