English
Related papers

Related papers: Soliton dynamics in the multiphoton plasma regime

200 papers

We study the possibility of efficient self-compression of femtosecond laser pulses in nonlinear media with anomalous dispersion of group velocity during the self-focusing of wave packets with a power several times greater than the critical…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-10 A. A. Balakin , A. G. Litvak , V. A. Mironov , S. A. Skobelev

We present numerical simulations of ultrafast multiphoton ionization dynamics in a two-dimensional atomic model driven by co- and counterrotating circularly polarized single-color and bichromatic carrier envelope phase (CEP) stable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 T. Bayer , Ch. Philipp , K. Eickhoff , M. Wollenhaupt

Spatial solitons can exist in various kinds of nonlinear optical resonators with and without amplification. In the past years different types of these localized structures such as vortices, bright, dark solitons and phase solitons have been…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Taranenko , G. Slekys , C. O. Weiss

Solitons are non-dispersing localized waves that occur in diverse physical settings. A variety of optical solitons have been observed, but versions that involve both spatial and temporal degrees of freedom are rare. Optical fibers designed…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 William H. Renninger , Frank W. Wise

An experimental procedure for studying soliton gases in shallow water is devised. Nonlinear waves propagate at constant depth in a 34\,m-long wave flume. At one end of the flume, the waves are generated by a piston-type wave-maker. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-09 Ivan Redor , Eric Barthélemy , Nicolas Mordant , Hervé Michallet

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

Soliton gases are large ensembles of random solitons with distinct characteristics arising from integrable system dynamics. They have been widely studied in theory and experiments, and were observed in natural lagoons. However, it remains…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-08 Yu-Chen Lee , Sander Wahls

Soliton molecules, bound states composed of interacting fundamental solitons, exhibit remarkable resemblance with chemical compounds and phenomena in quantum mechanics. Whereas optical molecules composed of two or more temporally locked…

Vector solitons present unique optical pulses characterised by coupled orthogonal polarisation components, offering rich, multidimensional dynamics. Their enhanced degrees of freedom make them highly versatile for exploring nonlinear wave…

We study the dynamics of solitons under the action of one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice potentials, fractional diffraction, and nonlinearity. The formation and stability of the solitons is investigated in the framework of the fractional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-11 Eduard Pavlyshynets , Luca Salasnich , Boris A. Malomed , Alexander Yakimenko

Relativistic solitons are self-trapped, finite size, electromagnetic waves of relativistic intensity that propagate without diffraction spreading. They have been predicted theoretically within the relativistic fluid approximation, and have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Daniela Farina , Sergei V. Bulanov

We reveal and observe experimentally significant modifications undertaken by discrete solitons in waveguide lattices upon the continuous transformation of the lattice structure from one-dimensional to two-dimensional. Light evolution and…

Ultrafast transient phenomena are the most important research field in nonlinear systems, and the mode-locking fiber laser provides an excellent research platform for ultrafast transient phenomena. We report on the experimental observation…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-08 Xueming Liu , Xiaoxiang Han , Yusheng Zhang

We theoretically propose a multidimensional high-harmonic echo spectroscopy technique which utilizes strong optical fields to resolve coherent electron dynamics spanning an energy range of multiple electron Volts. Using our recently…

The introduction of femto-chemistry has made it a primary goal to follow the nuclear and electronic evolution of a molecule in time and space as it undergoes a chemical reaction. Using Coulomb Explosion Imaging we have shot the first…

We theoretically and numerically study the evolution of soliton-like waves supported by stimulated Brillouin scattering. First, the emergence and unusual behaviour of resonant solitary waves are investigated for both backward and forward…

Optical solitons are self-sustained wave packets that propagate without distortion due to a balance between dispersion and nonlinearity. Their unique stability underpins key photonic applications while also playing a central role in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-04 François Copie , Pierre Suret , Stéphane Randoux

We analytically study plasma solitary waves, or solitons, in a two-dimensional (2D) electron system (ES) placed in close proximity to and between two ideal metallic gates. As a rule, solitons are described using a perturbative approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 A. A. Zabolotnykh

The article provides a survey of (chiefly, theoretical) results obtained for self-trapped modes (solitons) in various models of one-dimensional optical waveguides based on a pair of parallel guiding cores, which combine the linear…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-18 Boris A. Malomed

We investigate theoretically soliton excitations and dynamics of their formation in strongly correlated systems of ultracold bosonic atoms in two and three dimensional optical lattices. We derive equations of nonlinear hydrodynamics in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-27 Eugene Demler , Andrei Maltsev