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Polariton formalism is applied for studying the propagation of a probe field of light in a cloud of cold atoms influenced by two control laser beams of larger intensity. The laser beams couple resonantly three hyperfine atomic ground states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-22 J. Ruseckas , A. Mekys , G. Juzeliunas

We analyze mechanisms and regimes of wave packet spreading in nonlinear disordered media. We predict that wave packets can spread in two regimes of strong and weak chaos. We discuss resonance probabilities, nonlinear diffusion equations,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Flach

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of wave packets in a generic, non-Hermitian, optically anisotropic exciton-polariton system that exhibits degeneracies of its complex-valued eigenenergies in the form of pairs of exceptional points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Y. -M. Robin Hu , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Eliezer Estrecho

The propagation of bound optical waves along the surface of a one-dimensional (1-D) photonic crystal (PC) structure is considered. A unified description of the waves in 1-D PCs for both s- and p-polarizations is done via an impedance…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 Valery N. Konopsky

In this paper, an existence theory is established for ring-profiled optical vortex solitons. We consider such solitons in the context of an electromagnetic light wave propagating in a self-focusing nonlinear media and governed by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Luciano Medina

Vortex-carrying wave fields play a crucial role in photonics due to unusual propagation properties and interactions with matter, which enable numerous practical applications ranging from optical tweezers and imaging to information encoding…

This paper is concerned with pulsating waves for multi-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations in spatially periodic media. First, assuming the existence of pulsating waves connecting two linearly stable steady states, we study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Weiwei Ding , Zhanghua Liang , Wenfeng Liu

Linear and nonlinear mechanisms for conical wave propagation in two-dimensional lattices are explored in the realm of phononic crystals. As a prototypical example, a statically compressed granular lattice of spherical particles arranged in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-02-17 C. Chong , P. G. Kevrekidis , M. J. Ablowitz , Yi-Ping Ma

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

We consider the evolution of a tight binding wave packet propagating in a fluctuating periodic potential. If the fluctuations stem from a stationary Markov process satisfying certain technical criteria, we show that the square amplitude of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Eman Hamza , Yang Kang , Jeffrey Schenker

We consider the propagation of wave packets for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, with a matrix-valued potential, in the semi-classical limit. For a matrix-valued potential, Strichartz estimates are available under long range assumptions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-21 Lysianne Hari

The interplay of dynamics and transport leads to intriguing spatiotemporal behaviors of nonequilibrium macroscopic quantum systems. By means of time-resolved spectroscopy, we here provide microscopic insights into the interplay of ballistic…

The phenomenon of stable persistent currents is central to the studies of superfluidity in a range of physical systems. While all of the previous theoretical studies of superfluid flows in annular geometries concentrated on conservative…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-08-08 Guangyao Li , Michael D. Fraser , Alexander Yakimenko , Elena A. Ostrovskaya

Optical microcavities supporting exciton-polariton quasi-particles offer one of the most powerful platforms for investigation of rapidly developing area of topological photonics in general, and of photonic topological insulators in…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-25 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Dmitry V. Skryabin

Evanescently coupled waveguides are a powerful platform to study and visualize the wave dynamics in tight-binding systems. Here, we investigate the propagation of surface plasmon polaritons in arrays of dielectric loaded surface plasmon…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-29 Helene Wetter , Zlata Fedorova , Stefan Linden

The nonlinear amplitude modulation of longitudinal dust lattice waves (LDLWs) propagating in a dusty plasma crystal is investigated in a continuum approximation. It is shown that long wavelength LDLWs are modulationally stable, while…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 I. Kourakis , P. K. Shukla

We consider asymmetric (nonreciprocal) wave transmission through a layered nonlinear, non mirror-symmetric system described by the one-dimensional Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with spatially varying coefficients embedded in an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-12 Stefano Lepri , Giulio Casati

In this paper, we study the existence and stability of travelling wave solutions of a kinetic reaction-transport equation. The model describes particles moving according to a velocity-jump process, and proliferating thanks to a reaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Emeric Bouin , Vincent Calvez , Grégoire Nadin

We study propagation of high-frequency wave packets along a large-scale background wave which evolves according to dispersionless hydrodynamic equations for two variables (fluid density and flow velocity). Influence of the wave packet on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-08 D. V. Shaykin , A. M. Kamchatnov

The propagation of small-amplitude inhomogeneous plane waves in an isotropic homogeneous incompressible Mooney--Rivlin material is considered when the material is maintained in a state of finite static homogeneous deformation. Disturbances…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-02 Michel Destrade