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Single-particle momentum spectra for a dynamically evolving one-dimensional Bose gas are analysed in the semi-classical wave limit. Representing one of the simplest correlation functions these give information about possible universal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-06 Maximilian Schmidt , Sebastian Erne , Boris Nowak , Dénes Sexty , Thomas Gasenzer

The nonlinear coupling between the light beams and non-resonant ion density perturbations in a plasma is considered, taking into account the relativistic particle mass increase and the light beam ponderomotive force. A pair of equations…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. K. Shukla , R. Fedele , M. Onorato , N. L. Tsintsadze

We present the first numerically exact study of self-trapped, a.k.a. soliton, states of electrons that form in materials with strong quadratic coupling to the phonon coordinates. Previous studies failed to observe predictions based on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-08 Zhongjin Zhang , Anatoly Kuklov , Nikolay Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation supports solitons -- self-interacting, localized states that behave as nearly independent objects. We exhibit solitons with self-induced nonreciprocal dynamics in a discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Pedro Fittipaldi de Castro , Wladimir Alejandro Benalcazar

We introduce a general model which augments the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation by nonlinear-diffraction terms competing with the linear diffraction. The new terms contain two irreducible parameters and admit a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Shen , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker , Boris A. Malomed

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

We study nonlocal bright solitons subject to external spatially nonuniform potentials. If the potential is slowly varying on the soliton scale, we derive analytical soliton solutions behaving like Newtonian particles. If the potential has…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-07-09 G. N. Koutsokostas , I. Moseley , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

In the framework of the nonlinear $\Lambda$-model we investigate propagation of solitons in atomic vapors and Bose-Einstein condensates. We show how the complicated nonlinear interplay between fast solitons and slow-light solitons in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Rybin , I. P. Vadeiko , A. R. Bishop

We interpret the purely spectral forward Maxwell equation with up to 3${^{\rm rd}}$ order induced polarizations for pulse propagation and interactions in quadratic nonlinear crystals. The interpreted equation, also named nonlinear wave…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hairun Guo , Xianglong Zeng , Binbin Zhou , Morten Bache

We study a spherical, self-gravitating fluid model, which finds applications in cosmic structure formation. We argue that since the system features nonlinearity and gravity-induced dispersion, the emergence of solitons becomes possible. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-02-21 G. N. Koutsokostas , S. Sypsas , O. Evnin , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

The model underlying physics of guiding light in single-mode fibers -- the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE), reveals a remarkable balance of the fiber dispersion and nonlinearity, leading to the existence of optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-09-25 Alexandre Mucci , Pierre Suret , François Copie , Stephane Randoux , Rustam Mullyadzhanov , Andrey Gelash

We obtain the characteristic equation for the nonlinear Born-Infeld electrodynamics. This equation has the form of the characteristic equation for the linear electrodynamics in some effective Riemann space. The effective metric include the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Alexander A. Chernitskii

Matter-wave bright solitons are predicted to reflect from a purely attractive potential well although they are macroscopic objects with classical particle-like properties. The non-classical reflection occurs at small velocities and a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Chaohong Lee , Joachim Brand

The excitation of soliton states in optical layers exhibiting Kerr nonlinearities is theoretically investigated. The optical transmission coefficient is obtained as a function of the nonlinearity power of an incident monochromatic…

In this letter we introduce the concept of stabilized vector solitons as nonlinear waves constructed by addition of mutually incoherent Townes solitons that are stabilized under the effect of a periodic modulation of the nonlinearity. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gaspar D. Montesinos , Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Humberto Michinel

A novel soliton-like solution in quantum electrodynamics is obtained via a self-consistent field method. By writing the Hamiltonian of quantum electrodynamics in the Coulomb gauge, we separate out a classical component in the density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-12 O. D. Skoromnik , I. D. Feranchuk , C. H. Keitel

The field of a moving pointlike charge is determined in nonlinear local electrodynamics. As a model Lagrangian for the latter we take the one whose nonlinearity is the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian of quantum electrodynamics truncated at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-26 D. M. Gitman , A. E. Shabad , A. A. Shishmarev

We consider the interaction of a nonlinear Schrodinger soliton with a localized (point) defect in the medium through which it travels. Using numerical simulations, we find parameter regimes under which the soliton may be reflected,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 R. H. Goodman , P. J. Holmes , M. I. Weinstein

We study two-dimensional soliton-soliton vector pairs in media with self-focusing nonlinearities and defocing cross-interactions. The general properties of the stationary states and their stability are investigated. The different scenarios…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 A. I. Yakimenko , O. O. Prikhodko , S. I. Vilchynskyi

We study the dynamics of two-dimensional nonlinear ion-ion hybrid waves propagating perpendicular to an external magnetic field in plasmas with two ion species. We derive nonlinear equations for the envelope of electrostatic potential at…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-04-15 Volodymyr M. Lashkin