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In the present paper we consider an optical system with a $\chi^{(2)}$-type nonlinearity and unspecified $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potential functions. Considering this as an inverse problem and positing a family of exact solutions in terms…

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By means of a systematic numerical analysis, we demonstrate that hexagonal lattices of parallel linearly-coupled waveguides, with the intrinsic cubic self-focusing nonlinearity, give rise to three species of stable semi-discrete complexes…

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Optical vortices (OVs) have emerged as a revolutionary concept in modern photonics, offering a unique method of manipulating light beyond conventional Gaussian beams. Despite their vast potential, phase topology stability remains…

Conditions for stable propagation of one-dimensional bright spatial solitons in media exhibiting optical nonlinearities up to the seventh-order are investigated. The results show well-defined stability regions even when all the nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-30 Albert S. Reyna , Boris A. Malomed , Cid B. de Araujo

In chaotic deterministic systems, seemingly stochastic behavior is generated by relatively simple, though hidden, organizing rules and structures. Prominent among the tools used to characterize this complexity in 1D and 2D systems are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-07 Spencer A. Smith , Joshua Arenson , Eric Roberts , Suzanne Sindi , Kevin A. Mitchell

We use numerical simulations and linear stability analysis to study the dynamics of an active liquid crystal film on a substrate in the regime where the passive system would be isotropic. Extensile activity builds up local orientational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-26 Fernando Caballero , Zhihong You , M. Cristina Marchetti

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

Stable vortex solitons (VSs) are objects of great interest for fundamental studies and various applications, including particle trapping, microscopy, data encoding, and matter-wave gyroscopes. However, three-dimensional (3D) VSs with high…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-26 Yanchao Zhang , Chao Hang , Boris A. Malomed , Guoxiang Huang

We suggest a novel type of composite spatial optical soliton created by a coherent vortex beam guiding a partially incoherent light beam in a self-focusing nonlinear medium. We show that the incoherence of the guided mode may enhance,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristian Motzek , Friedemann Kaiser , José R. Salgueiro , Yuri S. Kivshar , Cornelia Denz

We introduce a new form of stable spatio-temporal self-trapped optical packets stemming from the interplay of local and nonlocal nonlinearities. Pulsed self-trapped light beams in media with both electronic and molecular nonlinear responses…

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…

Stability of elongated (``slender") quantum droplets (QDs) with embedded unitary and multiple vorticity is a problem that was not solved previously. In this work, we propose a solution which relies upon the use of the spatial modulation of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-15 Guilong Li , Zibin Zhao , Rui Zhang , Zhaopin Chen , Bin Liu , Boris A. Malomed , Yongyao Li

We consider soliton solutions of a two-dimensional nonlinear system with the self-focusing nonlinearity and a quasi-1D confining potential, taking harmonic potential as an example. We investigate a single soliton in detail and find…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Nguyen Viet Hung , Michal Matuszewski , Marek Trippenbach

We investigate the formation of a new class of density-phase defects in a resonantly driven 2D quantum fluid of light. The system bistability allows the formation of low density regions containing density-phase singularities confined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 S. V. Koniakhin , O. Bleu , D. D. Stupin , S. Pigeon , A. Maitre , F. Claude , G. Lerario , Q. Glorieux , A. Bramati , D. Solnyshkov , G. Malpuech

By means of variational methods and systematic numerical analysis, we demonstrate the existence of stable solitons in three-dimensional (3D) free space, in the context of binary atomic condensates combining contact self-attraction and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-23 Yong-Chang Zhang , Zheng-Wei Zhou , Boris A. Malomed , Han Pu

In the present work, we revisit two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in their fully three-dimensional (3d) form. Motivated by earlier studies of dark-bright solitons in the 1d case, we explore the stability of these structures in their…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-03-08 Wenlong Wang , P. G. Kevrekidis

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 hydrodynamic representation of a quantum fluid or optical field, vorticity vanishes wherever the phase is well defined, and is instead localized at phase singularities, or quantum vortices. Pseudovorticity, by contrast, characterizes…

We consider a two-component, two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger system with unequal dispersion coefficients and self-defocusing nonlinearities, chiefly with equal strengths of the self- and cross-interactions. In this setting, a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-15 E. G. Charalampidis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed