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We introduce a system based on dual-core nonlinear waveguides with the balanced gain and loss acting separately in the cores. The system features a "supersymmetry" when the gain and loss are equal to the inter-core coupling. This system…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Driben , B. A. Malomed

We introduce a 2D network built of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimers with on-site cubic nonlinearity, the gain and loss elements of the dimers being linked by parallel square-shaped lattices. The system may be realized as a set of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zhaopin Chen , Jingfeng Liu , Shenhe Fu , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed

We study stability and dynamics of the single cylindrically symmetric solitary structures and dipolar solitonic molecules in spatially nonlocal media. The main properties of the solitons, vortex solitons, and dipolar solitons are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-08 A. I. Yakimenko , V. M. Lashkin , O. O. Prikhodko

Since the parity-time-(PT-) symmetric quantum mechanics was put forward, fundamental properties of some linear and nonlinear models with PT-symmetric potentials have been investigated. However, previous studies of PT-symmetric waves were…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-29 Yong Chen , Zhenya Yan , Dumitru Mihalache , 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…

The statics, stability and dynamical properties of dark-bright soliton pairs are investigated motivated by applications in a homogeneous system of two-component repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. One of the intra-species…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-02 G. C. Katsimiga , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. Prinari , G. Biondini , P. Schmelcher

Parity-time(PT) symmetric lattices have been widely studied in controlling the flow of waves, and recently moir\'e superlattices, connecting the periodic and non-periodic potentials, are introduced for exploring unconventional physical…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-29 Xiuye Liu , Jianhua Zeng

We show theoretically that dark solitons can exist in the presence of pure quartic dispersion, and also in the presence of both quadratic and quartic dispersive effects, displaying a much greater variety of possible solutions and dynamics…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-03-09 Tristram J. Alexander , G. A. Tsolias , A. Demirkaya , Robert J. Decker , C. Martijn de Sterke , P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider bright solitons supported by a symmetric inhomogeneous defocusing nonlinearity growing rapidly enough toward the periphery of the medium, combined with an antisymmetric gain-loss profile. Despite the absence of any symmetric…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Boris A. Malomed , Lluis Torner

We predict the existence of surface dark solitons at the interface between a self-defocusing nonlocal nonlinear medium and a linear medium. The fundamental and higher-order surface dark solitons can exist when the linear refractive index of…

Optics · Physics 2011-03-08 XingHui Gao , Luohong Zhou , ZhenJun Yang , Xuekai Ma , Daquan Lu , Wei Hu

We consider the problem of the formation of soliton states from a modulationally unstable initial condition in the framework of the Schr\"odinger-Poisson (or Newton-Schr\"odinger) equation accounting for gravitational interactions. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-12-10 Josselin Garnier , Kilian Baudin , Adrien Fusaro , Antonio Picozzi

In the present work, we examine "binary" waveguide arrays, where the coupling between adjacent sites alternates between two distinct values $C_1$ and $C_2$ and a saturable nonlinearity is present on each site. Motivated by experimental…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-22 Andrey Kanshu , Christian E. Rüter , Detlef Kip , Jesús Cuevas , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

Two-dimensional gray solitons to the nonlinear Schroedinger equation are numerically created by two processes to show its robustness. One is transverse instability of a one-dimensional gray soliton, and another is a pair annihilation of a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Tomoko Higashiuchi

Solitons are universal nonlinear excitations that appear in settings as varied as optics, water waves, and quantum gases [1-5]. While reduced models of soliton dynamics are well established, their validity and dynamical behaviour in…

We construct families of discrete solitons (DSs) in an array of self-defocusing waveguides with an embedded $\mathcal{PT}$ (parity-time)-symmetric dimer, which is represented by a pair of waveguides carrying mutually balanced gain and loss.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-11 Zhiqiang Chen , Jiasheng Huang , Jinglei Chai , Xiangyu Zhang , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed

We investigate the transverse instability of two-component solitons forming in a planar waveguide operating in the regime of strong light-matter coupling. The instability emerges as a result of the coupling between transverse diffraction of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-07 Alexey V. Yulin , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

Based on the KP hierarchy reduction method, the general multi-dark soliton solutions in Gram type determinant forms for the multi-component coupled Maccari system are constructed. Especially, the three-component coupled Maccari system…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-08 Tao Xu , Yong Chen

We show experimentally the existence of bright and dark spatial solitons in a passive quantum-well-semiconductor resonator of large Fresnel number. For the wavelength of observation the nonlinearity is mixed absorptive/defocusing. Bright…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. B. Taranenko , I. Ganne , R. J. Kuszelewicz , C. O. Weiss

The recent creation of Townes solitons (TSs) in binary Bose-Einstein condensates and experimental demonstration of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) in solitons propagating in dual-core optical fibers draw renewed interest to the TS and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-16 Shatrughna Kumar , Pengfei Li , Boris A. Malomed

The optical Kerr micro-ring provides an ideal platform for the study of dissipative optical solitons. Dissipative solitons are localized waves produced by a precise equilibrium between dispersion and nonlinearity, as well as gain and loss.…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zijian Zhang , Chaoying Zhao