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In the present work, we consider the existence, stability, and dynamics of solitary waves in the nonlinear Dirac equation. We start by introducing the Soler model of self-interacting spinors, and discuss its localized waveforms in one, two,…

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Diffraction is one of the universal phenomena of physics, and a way to overcome it has always represented a challenge for physicists. In order to control diffraction, the study of structured waves has become decisive. Here, we present a…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-26 Miguel A. Bandres , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

We review various methods for the analysis of initial-value problems for integrable dispersive equations in the weak-dispersion or semiclassical regime. Some methods are sufficiently powerful to rigorously explain the generation of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-24 Peter D. Miller

Solitons are non-dispersive wave solutions that arise in a diverse range of nonlinear systems, stablised by a focussing or defocussing nonlinearity. First observed in shallow water, solitons have subsequently been studied in many other…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. L. Marchant , T. P. Billam , T. P. Wiles , M. M. H. Yu , S. A. Gardiner , S. L. Cornish

To understand an oft-observed but poorly understood phenomenon in which a solitary wave in a dispersive equation slowly deteriorates due to a persistent emission of radiation (i.e. a ``radiating solitary wave''), we propose a bare-bones…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-15 J. Douglas Wright

The dynamics of the radial envelope of a weak coherent drift wave is approximately governed by a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, which emerges as a limit of the modified Hasegawa-Mima equation. The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Yao Zhou , Hongxuan Zhu , I. Y. Dodin

We prove the existence and uniqueness, for wave speeds sufficiently large, of monotone traveling wave solutions connecting stable to unstable spatial equilibria for a class of $N$-dimensional lattice differential equations with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-06-14 Aaron Hoffman , Benjamin Kennedy

Solitary electromagnetic waves propagating along the waveguides forming a rhombic one-dimensional lattice are considered. Two waveguides that are part of the unit cell are assumed to be made of an optical linear material, while the third…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-12-30 A. I. Maimistov , E. I. Lyashko , E. O. Elyutin

Solitary-like surface waves that originate from the spatio-temporal evolution of falling liquid films have been the subject of theoretical and experimental research due to their unique properties that are not readily observed in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-10 Ivan S. Maksymov , Andrey Pototsky

Soliton solutions are studied for paraxial wave propagation with intensity-dependent dispersion. Although the corresponding Lagrangian density has a singularity, analytical solutions, derived by the pseudo-potential method and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-04-22 Chun-Yan Lin , Jen-Hsu Chang , Gershon Kurizki , Ray-Kuang Lee

Dissipative systems can often exhibit wavelength-dependent loss rates. One prominent example is Rydberg polaritons formed by electromagnetically-induced transparency, which have long been a leading candidate for studying the physics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 C. L. Baldwin , P. Bienias , A. V. Gorshkov , M. J. Gullans , M. Maghrebi

We are considered the propagation of the fundamental and second harmonic solitary waves under the slowly varying envelope pulses approximation in a quadratic nonlinear medium that characterized by negative refraction index at the frequency…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew I. Maimistov , Ildar R. Gabitov , Elena V. Kazantseva

Despite the abundance and importance of three-dimensional systems, relatively little progress has been made on spatiotemporal nonlinear optical waves compared to time-only or space-only systems. Here we study radiation emitted by…

In this paper we establish a rigorous spectral stability analysis for solitary waves associated to a generalized fractional Benjamin-Bona-Mahony type equation. Besides the well known smooth and positive solitary wave with large wave speed,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Goksu Oruc , Fábio Natali , Handan Borluk , Gulcin M. Muslu

Solitons are commonly known as waves that propagate without dispersion. Here we show that they can occur for driven overdamped Brownian dynamics of hard spheres in periodic potentials at high densities. The solitons manifest themselves as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-25 Alexander P. Antonov , Artem Ryabov , Philipp Maass

The presence of spatial inhomogeneity in a nonlinear medium restricts the formation of Solitary Waves (SW) on a discrete set of positions whereas a nonlocal nonlinearity tends to smooth the medium response by averaging over neighboring…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-11-27 Konstantinos Dragonas , Yannis Kominis

Solitons are self-reinforcing localized wave packets arising from a balance of linear and nonlinear effects. This definition encompasses the interplay of nonlinear gain and loss, leading to the concept of dissipative solitons that has been…

We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Frohlich , S. Gustafson , B. L. G. Jonsson , I. M. Sigal

In this paper, we examine in detail the principal branches of solutions that arise in vector discrete models with nonlinear inter-component coupling and four wave mixing. The relevant four branches of solutions consist of two single mode…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 R. L. Horne , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker

We demonstrate the existence of two species of stable bright solitons, fundamental and dipole ones, in one-dimensional self-defocusing nonlocal media, with the local value of nonlinearity coefficient having one or several minima and growing…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yingji He , Boris A. Malomed