English
Related papers

Related papers: Spiraling Solitons: a Continuum Model for Dynamica…

200 papers

In this paper, we employ, for the first time, the holographic gravity approach to investigate the dynamical stability of solitons in spherical superfluids. Transverse perturbations are applied to the background of spherical soliton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Meng Gao , Yu Tian , Changxu Yan , Hongbao Zhang

The interaction behavior of solitons are defining characteristics of these nonlinear, coherent structures. Due to recent experimental observations, thin ferromagnetic films offer a promising medium in which to study the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-18 M. D. Maiden , L. D. Bookman , M. A. Hoefer

Soliton molecules are the manifestation of attractive and repulsive interaction between optical pulses mediated by a nonlinear medium. However, the formation and breakup of soliton molecules are difficult to observe due to the transient…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-12 Shuqian Sun , Zhixing Lin , Wei Li , Ninghua Zhu , Ming Li

We study the behavior of the soliton solutions of the equation i((\partial{\psi})/(\partialt))=-(1/(2m)){\Delta}{\psi}+(1/2)W_{{\epsilon}}'({\psi})+V(x){\psi} where W_{{\epsilon}}' is a suitable nonlinear term which is singular for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Vieri Benci , Marco Ghimenti , Anna Maria Micheletti

We study the dynamics of solitons under the action of one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice potentials, fractional diffraction, and nonlinearity. The formation and stability of the solitons is investigated in the framework of the fractional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-11 Eduard Pavlyshynets , Luca Salasnich , Boris A. Malomed , Alexander Yakimenko

The soliton dynamics in the semiclassical limit for a weakly coupled nonlinear focusing Schr\"odinger systems in presence of a nonconstant potential is studied by taking as initial data some rescaled ground state solutions of an associate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-08-20 Eugenio Montefusco , Benedetta Pellacci , Marco Squassina

We develop a theory of soliton spiraling in a bulk nonlinear medium and reveal a new physical mechanism: periodic power exchange via induced coherence, which can lead to stable spiraling and the formation of dynamical two-soliton states.…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander V. Buryak , Yuri S. Kivshar , Ming-feng Shih , Mordechai Segev

We have introduced a class of spiraling elliptic solitons in generic nonlocal nonlinear media. The spiraling elliptic solitons carry the orbital angular momentum. This class solitons are stable for any degree of nonlocality except for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-03-08 Guo Liang , Qian Shou , Qi Guo

We study a spherical, self-gravitating fluid model, which finds applications in cosmic structure formation. We argue that since the system features nonlinearity and gravity-induced dispersion, the emergence of solitons becomes possible. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-02-21 G. N. Koutsokostas , S. Sypsas , O. Evnin , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

The dynamics of a system of particles subject to a 4th order potential field modeling the space-time evolution of wedge disclinations is studied, focusing on finite systems of disclinations within a circular domain. Existence theorems for…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Pierluigi Cesana , Alfio Grillo , Marco Morandotti , Andrea Pastore

We put forward properties of solitons supported by optical lattices featuring topological dislocations, and show that solitons experience attractive and repulsive forces around the dislocations. Suitable arrangements of dislocations are…

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

We generalize the concept of nonlinear periodic structures to systems that show arbitrary spacetime variations of the refractive index. Nonlinear pulse propagation through these spatiotemporal photonic crystals can be described, for shallow…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fabio Biancalana , Andreas Amann , Eoin P. O'Reilly

Pulsating behavior is a universal phenomenon in versatile fields. In nonlinear dissipative systems, the solitons could also pulsate under proper conditions and show many interesting dynamics. However, the pulsation dynamics is generally…

Recent highly idealized model studies of lubricated nanofriction for two crystalline sliding surfaces with an interposed thin solid crystalline lubricant layer showed that the overall relative velocity of the lubricant $v_{\rm lub} / v_{\rm…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-06 A. Vigentini , B. Van Hattem , E. Diato , P. Ponzellini , T. Meledina , A. Vanossi , G. Santoro , E. Tosatti , N. Manini

The propagation and controlled manipulation of strongly nonlinear, two-dimensional solitonic states in a thin, anisotropic ferromagnet are theoretically demonstrated. It has been recently proposed that spin-polarized currents in a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-07-23 M. A. Hoefer , M. Sommacal , T. J. Silva

We find a new type of optical vector soliton that originates from trapping of a dipole mode by a soliton-induced waveguide. These solitons, which appear as a consequence of the vector nature of the two component system, are more stable than…

Solitons, as coherent structures that maintain their shape while traveling at constant velocity, are ubiquitous across various branches of physics, from fluid dynamics to quantum fields. However, it is within the realm of optics where…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-21 Dmitry Kazakov , Federico Capasso , Marco Piccardo

Solitons - localized wave packets that travel without spreading - play a central role in understanding transport and properties of nonlinear systems, from optical fibers to fluid dynamics. In quantum many-body systems, however, such robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Aron Kerschbaumer , Jean-Yves Desaules , Marko Ljubotina , Maksym Serbyn

We show that hydrodynamic theories of polar active matter generically possess inhomogeneous traveling solutions. We introduce a unifying dynamical-system framework to establish the shape of these intrinsically nonlinear patterns, and show…

We present results of molecular dynamics simulations of the electron system on the surface of liquid helium. The simulations are done for 1600 electrons with periodic boundary conditions. Electron scattering by capillary waves and phonons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 K. Moskovtsev amd M. I. Dykman