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A general type of localized excitations, folded solitary waves and foldons, are defined and studied both analytically and graphically. The folded solitary waves and foldons may be "folded" in quite complicated ways and possess quite rich…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-01-17 Xiao-yan Tang , Sen-yue Lou

We analyse the dynamical properties of three-dimensional solitary waves in cylindrically trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. Families of solitary waves bifurcate from the planar dark soliton and include the solitonic vortex, the vortex ring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-05 Antonio Muñoz Mateo , Joachim Brand

We consider an array of coupled optical cavities, each containing a multi-atom ensemble. We show that the nonlinearity inherent in the cooperative dynamics of the atoms in each ensemble coupled to the respective cavity field allows for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Paternostro , G. S. Agarwal , M. S. Kim

Periodic driving of particles can create crystalline structures in their dynamics. Such systems can be used to study solid-state physics phenomena in the time domain. In addition, it is possible to realize photonic time crystals and to…

Flexible mechanical metamaterials are compliant structures engineered to achieve unique properties via the large deformation of their components. While their static character has been studied extensively, the study of their dynamic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Bolei Deng , Jordan R. Raney , Katia Bertoldi , Vincent Tournat

A new class of solitary waves arises in the solution of nonlinear wave equations with constant impedance and no dispersive terms. They depend on a balance between nonlinearity and a dispersion-like effect due to spatial variation in the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-12-17 David I. Ketcheson , Manuel Quezada de Luna

We study the excitation, decay and interactions of novel, velocity locked three-wave parametric solitons in a medium with quadratic nonlinearity and dispersion. We analytically describe the particle-like scattering between stable or…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matteo Conforti , Fabio Baronio , Antonio Degasperis , Stefan Wabnitz

We demonstrate the existence of stable three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons (STSs) in media with a nonlocal cubic nonlinearity. Fundamental (nonspinning) STSs forming one-parameter families are stable if their propagation constant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Mihalache , D. Mazilu , F. Lederer , B. A. Malomed , Y. V. Kartashov , L. -C. Crasovan , L. Torner

We overview the properties of nonlinear guided waves and (bright and dark) spatial optical solitons in a periodic medium created by a sequence of linear and nonlinear layers. First, we consider a single layer with a cubic nonlinear response…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-01 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We study the nonlinear wave dynamics of one-dimensional chains of polycatenated rings. These interlocked structures support amplitude-dependent nonlinear wave propagation driven by tensile activation and internal structural flexibility,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-25 Xiaoxiao Xiong , Reo Yanagi , Tingtao Zhou , Chiara Daraio

In recent years, bright soliton-like structures composed of gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates have been generated at ultracold temperature. The experimental capacity to precisely engineer the nonlinearity and potential landscape experienced…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-29 T. P. Billam , A. L. Marchant , S. L. Cornish , S. A. Gardiner , N. G. Parker

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

The space electron-ion-positive dust plasma system containing isothermal inertialess electron species, cold inertial ion species, and stationary positive (positivively charged) dust species is considered. The basic features of one…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 A A Mamun

Solitary wave and soliton solutions of nonlinear equations are well known for physicists. A soliton is a solitary wave with some outstanding features which make it reasonable to be studied seriously in nonlinear systems. In fact most of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-28 Azizollah Azizi , Mohammad Mohammadi

We study the existence of solitary-wave solutions and some of their properties for a general multicomponent long-wave-short-wave interaction system. The system considered here describes the nonlinear interaction of multiple short waves with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-09-01 Santosh Bhattarai

The paper continues a series of publications devoted to the 3D nonlinear localized coherent structures on the surface of vertically falling liquid films. The work is primarily focussed on experimental investigations. We study: (i)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. A. Demekhin , E. N. Kalaidin , A. S. Selin

Solitary electromagnetic waves propagating along the waveguides forming a rhombic one-dimensional lattice are considered. Two waveguides that are part of the unit cell are assumed to be made of an optical linear material, while the third…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-30 A. I. Maimistov , E. I. Lyashko , E. O. Elyutin

We present exact electromagnetic solitary pulses that can be experimentally obtained within nonlinear left-handed metamaterials. The effect of pulse decoherence on the modulation instability of partially incoherent electromagnetic waves is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo , G. Brodin

In this paper, we carry out a theoretical investigation on the propagation of spatio-temporal solitons (light bullets) in the nonlinear metamaterial waveguides. Our theoretical study is based on the formulation of Lagrangian variational…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-08 A. K. Shafeeque Ali , A. Govindarajan , M. Lakshmanan