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Using the variational approximation(VA) and direct simulations, we find stable 2D and 3D solitons in the self-attractive Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) with a potential which is uniform in one direction ($z$) and periodic in the others…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-13 B. B. Baizakov , B. A. Malomed , M. Salerno

It is shown that the pair plasmas with small temperature asymmetry can support existence of localized as well as de-localized optical vortex solitons. Coexistence of such solitons is possible due to peculiar form of saturating nonlinearity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 V. I. Berezhiani , S. M. Mahajan , N. L. Shatashvili

We propose two models for the creation of stable dissipative solitons in optical media with the $\chi^{(2)}$ (quadratic) nonlinearity. To compensate spatially uniform loss in both the fundamental-frequency (FF) and second-harmonic (SH)…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Valery E. Lobanov , Olga V. Borovkova , Boris A. Malomed

We reveal that spatially localized vortex solitons become stable in self-focusing nonlinear media when the vortex symmetry-breaking azimuthal instability is eliminated by a nonlocal nonlinear response. We study the main properties of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Yakimenko , Yuri Zaliznyak , Yuri Kivshar

The usual cubic-quintic (CQ) nonlinearity is proved to sustain one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) broad (flat-top) solitons. In this work, we demonstrate that 1D and 2D soliton families can be supported, in the semi-infinite bandgap…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-07 Liangwei Zeng , Boris A. Malomed , Dumitru Mihalache , Xing Zhu

This concise review aims to provide a summary of the most relevant recent experimental and theoretical results for solitons, i.e., self-trapped bound states of nonlinear waves, in two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) media. In comparison…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-12-29 Boris A. Malomed

Recent studies have demonstrated that defocusing cubic nonlinearity with local strength growing from the center to the periphery faster than $r^{D}$, in space of dimension $D$ with radial coordinate $r$, supports a vast variety of robust…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-26 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

We explore stability regions for solitons in the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a spatially confined region carrying a combination of self-focusing cubic and septimal terms, with a quintic one of either focusing or defocusing sign.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-02 H. Fabrelli , J. B. Sudharsan , R. Radha , A. Gammal , Boris A. Malomed

The existence, stability and other dynamical properties of a new type of multi-dimensional (2D or 3D) solitons supported by a transverse low-dimensional (1D or 2D, respectively) periodic potential in the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Bakhtiyor B. Baizakov , Boris A. Malomed , Mario Salerno

We present a brief overview of the basic concepts of the soliton stability theory and discuss some characteristic examples of the instability-induced soliton dynamics, in application to spatial optical solitons described by the NLS-type…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-04-23 Yuri S. Kivshar , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

We demonstrate the existence and stability of bright vortex solitons sustained by a ring-shaped parametric gain, for both focusing and defocusing Kerr nonlinearities in lossy optical media. With the defocusing nonlinearity, the vortices are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-13 Changming Huang , Fangwei Ye , Boris A. Malomed , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Xianfeng Chen

Nonlocality is a key feature of many physical systems since it prevents a catastrophic collapse and a symmetry-breaking azimuthal instability of intense wave beams in a bulk self-focusing nonlinear media. This opens up an intriguing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-16 V. M. Biloshytskyi , A. O. Oliynyk , P. M. Kruglenko , A. S. Desyatnikov , A. I. Yakimenko

It is studied the bright spatial solitons in nonlocal defocusing Kerr media with parity-time (PT) symmetric potentials. We find that these solitons can exist and be stable over a different range of potential parameters. The influence of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zhiwei Shi , Huagang Li , Xing Zhu , Xiujuan Jiang

We introduce a model of one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) optical media with the $\chi ^{(2)}$ nonlinearity whose local strength is subject to cusp-shaped spatial modulation, $\chi ^{(2)}\sim r^{-\alpha }$, with $\alpha >0$, which can be…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Vitaly Lutsky , Boris A. Malomed

The existence and stability of fundamental, dipole, and tripole solitons in Kerr nonlinear media with parity-time symmetric Gaussian complex potentials are reported. Fundamental solitons are stable not only in deep potentials but also in…

Optics · Physics 2011-10-14 Sumei Hu , Xuekai Ma , Daquan Lu , Zhenjun Yang , Yizhou Zheng , Wei Hu

In the present work, we revisit the highly active research area of inhomogeneously nonlinear defocusing media and consider the existence, spectral stability and nonlinear dynamics of bright solitary waves in them. We use the anti-continuum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-09-02 P. G. Kevrekidis , R. L. Horne , N. Whitaker , Q. E. Hoq , D. Kip

We introduce discrete multivortex solitons in a ring of nonlinear oscillators coupled to a central site. Regular clusters of discrete vortices appear as a result of mode collisions and we show that their stability is determined by global…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-19 Daniel Leykam , Anton S. Desyatnikov

We report that infinite and semi-infinite lattices with spatially inhomogeneous self-defocusing (SDF)\ onsite nonlinearity, whose strength increases rapidly enough toward the lattice periphery, support stable unstaggered (UnST) discrete…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-17 Goran Gligoric , Aleksandra Maluckov , Ljupco Hadzievski , Boris Malomed

The stabilization of one-dimensional solitons by a nonlinear lattice against the critical collapse in the focusing quintic medium is a challenging issue. We demonstrate that this purpose can be achieved by combining a…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jincheng Shi , Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

We address the existence and stability of two-dimensional solitons in optical or matter-wave media, which are supported by purely nonlinear lattices in the form of a periodic array of cylinders with self-focusing nonlinearity, embedded into…