English
Related papers

Related papers: Tracking azimuthons in nonlocal nonlinear media

200 papers

We question physical existence of shape invariant solitons in three dimensional nematic liquid crystals. Using modified Petviashvili's method for finding eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, we determine shape invariant solitons in a realistic…

We present the experimental observation of scalar multi-pole solitons in highly nonlocal nonlinear media, including dipole-, tri-pole, quadru-pole, and necklace-type solitons, organized as arrays of out-of-phase bright spots. These complex…

In this report, fundamental educational concepts of linear and non-linear equations and solutions of nonlinear equations from the book High-Temperature Superconductivity: The Nonlinear Mechanism and Tunneling Measurements (Kluwer Academic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 Yousef Yousefi , Khikmat Kh. Muminov

We study nonlocal bright solitons subject to external spatially nonuniform potentials. If the potential is slowly varying on the soliton scale, we derive analytical soliton solutions behaving like Newtonian particles. If the potential has…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-09 G. N. Koutsokostas , I. Moseley , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We discuss the formation of self-trapped localized states near the edge of a semi-infinite array of nonlinear waveguides. We study a crossover from nonlinear surface states to discrete solitons by analyzing the families of odd and even…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. I. Molina , R. A. Vicencio , Y. S. Kivshar

We revisit the topic of the existence and azimuthal modulational stability of solitary vortices (alias vortex solitons) in the two-dimensional (2D) cubic-quintic nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. We develop a semi-analytical approach,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-11 R. M. Caplan , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed

We show that in superfluids with fermionic imbalance and uniform ground state, there are stable solitons. These solutions are formed of radial density modulations resulting in nodal rings. We demonstrate that these solitons exhibit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-01 Mats Barkman , Albert Samoilenka , Thomas Winyard , Egor Babaev

We consider the problem of the soliton propagation, in a slowly varying medium, for a generalized, variable-coefficients nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. We prove existence and uniqueness of new soliton-like solutions for a large class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Claudio Muñoz

We demonstrate a stable, mobile, dipolar or nondipolar three-dimensional matter-wave soliton in the vortex core of a uniform nondipolar condensate. All intra- and inter-species contact interactions can be repulsive for a strongly dipolar…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-28 S. K. Adhikari

Solitary waves, dubbed "solitons", are special types of waves that propagate for an infinite distance under ideal conditions. These waves are ubiquitously found in nature such as typhoon or neuron signals. Yet, their artificial generation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-20 Satoshi Aya , Fumito Araoka

We analyze the salient features of vortex-ring solitons supported by cylindrically symmetric media with nonlocal thermal nonlinearity. We discover the existence of a maximum allowed topological charge for such vortex solitons to be stable…

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

Toroidal modes in the form of so-called Hopfions, with two independent winding numbers, a hidden one (twist, s), which characterizes a circular vortex thread embedded into a three-dimensional soliton, and the vorticity around the vertical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. V. Kartashov , B. A. Malomed , Y. Shnir , L. Torner

We introduce a dynamical model of a Bose-Einstein condensate based on the 2D Gross-Pitaevskii equation, in which the nonlinear coefficient is a function of radius. The model describes a situation with spatial modulation of the negative…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed

We study the propagation and stability of electromagnetic vortex beams in relativistically de generate plasmas. We show that such plasmas support localized vortex solitons carrying orbital angular momentum and analyze their linear and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Nikolai Maltsev , Vazha I. Berezhiani

Polar solitons, i.e., solitonic waves accompanying asymmetry of geometry or phase, have garnered attention in polar systems, such as ferroelectric or magnetoelectric materials, where they play a critical role in topological transitions and…

We address the interactions between optical solitons in the system with longitudinally varying nonlocality degree and nonlinearity strength. We consider a physical model describing light propagation in nematic liquid crystals featuring a…

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

We propose a simple dissipative system with purely cubic defocusing nonlinearity and nonuniform linear gain that can support stable localized dissipative vortex solitons with high topological charges without the utilization of competing…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-24 Chunyan Li , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We address the existence and properties of one-dimensional solitons maintained by localized parameter gain in focusing and defocusing lossy nonlinear media. Localized parametric gain supports both fundamental and multipole solitons. We…

We describe experiments testing the existence and investigating the properties of spatial solitons in nonlinear resonators. We investigate the properties of stationary and moving spatial solitons in lasers with saturable absorber, with a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 C. O. Weiss , G. Slekys , V. B. Taranenko , K. Staliunas , R. Kuszelewicz

Interactions between solitons and the coherent oscillation structures generated by localized disturbances via modulational instability are studied within the framework of the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Two main interaction…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-24 Gino Biondini , Sitai Li , Dionyssios Mantzavinos