English
Related papers

Related papers: Thresholdless surface solitons

200 papers

We predict the existence of surface gap modes, known as Tamm states for electronic systems, in truncated photonic crystals formed by two types of dielectric rods. We investigate the energy threshold, dispersion, and modal symmetries of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven K. Morrison , Yuri S. Kivshar

In this paper we study the invasion fronts of spatially periodic monotone reaction-diffusion systems in a multi-dimensional setting. We study the pulsating traveling waves that connect the trivial equilibrium, for which all components of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-14 Liangliang Deng , Arnaud Ducrot , Quentin Griette

We consider one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) optical or matter-wave media with a maximum of the local self-repulsion strength at the center, and a minimum at periphery. If the central area is broad enough, it supports ground states in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-02 Liangwei Zeng , Boris A. Malomed , Dumitru Mihalache , Yi Cai , Xiaowei Lu , Qifan Zhu , Jingzhen Li

Surface Tamm states arise in one-dimensional lattices from some defects at the lattice edge and their energy generally falls in a gap of the crystal. The defects at the surface change rather generally the phase of propagative Bloch waves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Stefano Longhi

The problem of a viscous flow past a submerged source starting from rest and moving with a constant velocity, below and parallel to a free surface is examined. Asymptotic expressions for long-time evolution of free-surface elevation are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-03-06 Jian-Jun Shu

An important characteristic of topological band insulators is the necessary presence of in-gap edge states on the sample boundary. We utilize this fact to show that when the boundary is reconnected with a twist, there are always zero-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Dung-Hai Lee , Guang-Ming Zhang , Tao Xiang

We theoretically show the existence of cascaded second-order surface plasmon solitons propagating at the interface between metal and linear dielectric. Nonlocal multipole nonlinearities originating from free conduction electron plasma of a…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 Pavel Ginzburg , Alexey Krasavin , Anatoly V. Zayats

We have found various families of two-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in quadratically nonlinear waveguide arrays. The families of unstaggered odd, even and twisted stationary solutions are thoroughly characterized and their stability…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhiyong Xu , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lucian-Cornel Crasovan , Dumitru Mihalache , Lluis Torner

Topological soliton is a nonperturbative excitation in commensurate density wave states and connects degenerate ground states. In incommensurate density wave states, ground states are continuously degenerate and topological soliton is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Dirk Manske , Naoto Nagaosa

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

Hyperbolic metasurfaces have gained significant attention due to their extraordinary electromagnetic properties to control propagating plane waves, but the excitation and propagation of the surface plasmon-polaritons at hyperbolic…

Dispersive shock waves and solitons are fundamental nonlinear excitations in dispersive media, but dispersive shock wave studies to date have been severely constrained. Here we report on a novel dispersive hydrodynamics testbed: the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-04 Michelle D. Maiden , Nicholas K. Lowman , Dalton V. Anderson , Marika E. Schubert , Mark A. Hoefer

It is shown that surface waves with twelve different velocities in the cases of different magneto-electrical boundary conditions can be guided by the interface of two magneto-electro-elastic half-spaces. The plane boundary of one of the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arman Melkumyan

We demonstrate that spatially inhomogeneous defocusing nonlinear landscapes with the nonlinearity coefficient growing toward the periphery as [1+abs(r)]**a support one- and two-dimensional fundamental and higher-order bright solitons, as…

We consider the interplay between nonlocal nonlinearity and randomness for two different nonlinear Schr\"odinger models. We show that stability of bright solitons in presence of random perturbations increases dramatically with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-06-07 F. Maucher , W. Krolikowski , S. Skupin

We find that diverse nonlinear waves, such as soliton, Akhmediev breather, and rogue waves (RWs), can emerge and interplay with each other in a two-mode coupled system. It provides a good platform to study interaction between different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 Li-Chen Zhao , Jie Liu

Space-time (ST) wave packets are propagation-invariant pulsed optical beams that travel freely in dielectrics at a tunable group velocity without diffraction or dispersion. Because ST wave packets maintain these characteristics even when…

For scalar semilinear wave equations, we analyze the interaction of two (distorted) plane waves at an interface between media of different nonlinear properties. We show that new waves are generated from the nonlinear interactions, which…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-15 Maarten de Hoop , Gunther Uhlmann , Yiran Wang

The present paper reviews recent advances in the theory of nonlinear driven magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves in slow and Alfven resonant layers. Simple estimations show that in the vicinity of resonant positions the amplitude of variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Istvan Ballai , Michael Ruderman

A salient feature of solid-state topological materials in two dimensions is the presence of conducting electronic edge states that are insensitive to scattering by disorder. Such unidirectional edge states have been explored in many…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-28 Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman