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Motivated by recent proposals of ``collisionally inhomogeneous'' Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), which have a spatially modulated scattering length, we study the existence and stability properties of bright and dark matter-wave solitons…

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In the present work, we consider the dynamics of dark solitons as one mode of a defocusing photorefractive lattice coupled with bright solitons as a second mode of the lattice. Our investigation is motivated by an experiment which…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 Rong Dong , Christian E. Rüter , Detlef Kip , Jesús Cuevas , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Daohong Song , Jingjun Xu

Discrete fundamental and dipole solitons are constructed, in an exact analytical form, in an array of linear waveguides with an embedded $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer, which is composed of two nonlinear waveguides carrying equal gain and…

The dynamical stability of dark solitons in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates is studied. For standard short-range interacting condensates dark solitons are unstable against transverse excitations in two and three dimensions. On the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Nath , P. Pedri , L. Santos

We study dark-bright ring solitons in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. In the limit of large densities of the dark component, we describe the soliton dynamics by means of an equation of motion for the ring radius. The presence of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-09-16 J. Stockhofe , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. Schmelcher

Two-dimensional (2D) fundamental soliton-soliton pairs are investigated in binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interactions between atoms of the same type. Both attractive and repulsive interactions between atoms of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-03-16 A. I. Yakimenko , K. O. Shchebetovska , S. I. Vilchinskii , M. Weyrauch

We study the existence and stability of fundamental bright discrete solitons in a parity-time (PT)-symmetric coupler composed by a chain of dimers, that is modelled by linearly coupled discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equations with gain and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-10-18 Omar B. Kirikchi , Alhaji A Bachtiar , Hadi Susanto

An overview is given of basic models combining discreteness in their linear parts (i.e. the models are built as dynamical lattices) and nonlinearity acting at sites of the lattices or between the sites. The considered systems include the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-03-31 Boris A. Malomed

We consider dark solitons and their stability in spin-orbit coupled polariton condensates. The system supports spinor solitons of two types: conventional (symmetric) dark solitons and asymmetric half-dark solitons. They demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We present a unified approach for qualitative and quantitative analysis of stability and instability dynamics of positive bright solitons in multi-dimensional focusing nonlinear media with a potential (lattice), which can be periodic,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Sivan , G. Fibich , B. Ilan , M. I. Weinstein

We construct families of one-dimensional (1D) stable solitons in two-component $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quintic nonlinearity, which plays the critical role in 1D setups. The system models light…

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We consider the stability and dynamics of multiple dark solitons in cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Our study is motivated by the fact that multiple matter-wave dark solitons may naturally form in such settings as per our…

The stability and collapse of fundamental unstaggered bright solitons in the discrete Schrodinger equation with the nonpolynomial on-site nonlinearity, which models a nearly one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a deep optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Gligoric , A. Maluckov , Lj. Hadzievski , B. A. Malomed

The existence and stability of defect solitons supported by parity-time (PT) symmetric superlattices with nonlocal nonlinearity are investigated. In the semi-infinite gap, in-phase solitons are found to exist stably for positive or zero…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-17 Sumei Hu , Daquan Lu , Xuekai Ma , Qi Guo , Wei Hu

We study collisions of moving nonlinear-Schr\"{o}dinger solitons with a $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dipole embedded into the one-dimensional self-focusing or defocusing medium. Accurate analytical results are produced for bright solitons, and,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-03 N. Karjanto , W. Hanif , B. A. Malomed , H. Susanto

We prove existence of discrete solitons in infinite parity-time (PT-) symmetric lattices by means of analytical continuation from the anticontinuum limit. The energy balance between dissipation and gain implies that in the anticontinuum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-12-17 V. V. Konotop , D. E. Pelinovsky , D. A. Zezyulin

In the present work we consider the subject of dark fractional solitary waves in the realm of generalized (fractional) forms of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. While earlier studies have examined such states in the realm of real…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-21 Almudena P. Márquez , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We analyze stability and generation of discrete gap solitons in weakly coupled optical waveguides. We demonstrate how both stable and unstable solitons can be observed experimentally in the engineered binary waveguide arrays, and also…

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

Solitons are among the most distinguishing fundamental excitations in a wide range of non-linear systems such as water in narrow channels, high speed optical communication, molecular biology and astrophysics. Stabilized by a balance between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Becker , S. Stellmer , P. Soltan-Panahi , S. Dörscher , M. Baumert , E. -M. Richter , J. Kronjäger , K. Bongs , K. Sengstock

Adopting a mean-field description for a two-component atomic Bose-Einstein condensate, we study the stat- ics and dynamics of dark-bright solitons in the presence of localized impurities. We use adiabatic perturbation theory to derive an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Achilleos , P. G. Kevrekidis , V. M. Rothos , D. J. Frantzeskakis