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Dark solitons have been observed in optical systems (optical fibres, dielectric guides and bulk media), and, more recently, in harmonically confined atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. This paper presents an overview of some of the common…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 N. P. Proukakis , N. G. Parker , D. J. Frantzeskakis , C. S. Adams

We explore the stability and dynamics of dark-bright solitons in two-component elongated Bose-Einstein condensates by developing effective 1D vector equations as well as solving the corresponding 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equations. A strong…

Buildup and switching mechanisms of solitons in complex nonlinear systems are fundamentally important dynamical regimes. Using a novel strongly nonlinear optical system,the work reveals a new buildup scenario for soliton molecules , which…

We consider a family of regularized defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equations proposed in the context of the cubic NLS equation with a bounded dispersion relation. The time evolution is well-posed if the black soliton is perturbed by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Dmitry E. Pelinovsky , Michael Plum

The dynamics of dark-bright solitons beyond the mean-field approximation is investigated. We first examine the case of a single dark-bright soliton and its oscillations within a parabolic trap. Subsequently, we move to the setting of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-16 G. C. Katsimiga , G. M. Koutentakis , S. I. Mistakidis , P. G. Kevrekidis , P. Schmelcher

We characterize the full family of soliton solutions sitting over a background plane wave and ruled by the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the regime where a quintic focusing term represents a saturation of the cubic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Crosta , A. Fratalocchi , S. Trillo

We introduce a setting based on the one-dimensional (1D) nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLSE) with the self-focusing (SF) cubic term modulated by a singular function of the coordinate, |x|^{-a}. It may be additionally combined with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Olga V. Borovkova , Valery E. Lobanov , Boris A. Malomed

Ultralight dark matter simulations predict condensates with short-range correlation, known as solitons or boson stars, at the centers of dark matter halos. This paper investigates the formation and collapse of dark matter solitons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-21 Jiajun Chen , Hong-Yi Zhang

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

In the present work we consider the subject of dark fractional solitary waves in the realm of generalized (fractional) forms of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. While earlier studies have examined such states in the realm of real…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-21 Almudena P. Márquez , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

The existence and decay properties of dark solitons for a large class of nonlinear nonlocal Gross-Pitaevskii equations with nonzero boundary conditions in dimension one has been established recently in [de Laire and S. L\'opez-Mart\'inez,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-03 André de Laire , Guillaume Dujardin , Salvador López-Martínez

Dynamics of vector dark solitons in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates is studied within the framework of the coupled one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equations. We consider the small amplitude limit in which the coupled…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A. Brazhnyi , V. V. Konotop

We study the dynamics of bright and dark matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying nonlinearity. When the spatial variation does not involve zero crossings, a transformation is used to bring the problem to a standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Middelkamp , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. Schmelcher

Dynamics of solitons is considered in the framework of an extended nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE), which is derived from a Zakharov-type model for wind-driven high-frequency (HF) surface waves in the ocean, coupled to damped…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-12-04 Evgeny M. Gromov , 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

Real-time spectroscopy based on an emerging time-stretch technique can map the spectral information of optical waves into the time domain, opening several fascinating explorations of nonlinear dynamics in mode-locked lasers. However, the…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-23 X. M. Liu , Y. D. Cui

Dark solitons and localized defect modes against periodic backgrounds are considered in arrays of waveguides with defocusing Kerr nonlinearity constituting a nonlinear lattice. Bright defect modes are supported by local increase of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-02 Liangwei Zeng , Vladimir V. Konotop , Xiaowei Lu , Yi Cai , Qifan Zhu , Jingzhen Li

Some modified (defocusing) non-linear Schr\"odinger models (MNLS) possess infinite towers of anomalous conservation laws with asymptotically conserved charges. The so-called anomalies of the quasi-conservation laws vanish upon space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-16 H. Blas , M. Cerna Maguiña , L. F. dos Santos

The goal of this work is to revisit the eigenfunction-expansion-based perturbation theory for the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation a nonzero background, and develop it to correctly predict the slow-time evolution of the dark…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-03-03 Nicholas J. Ossi , Barbara Prinari , Jianke Yang

We consider the existence, stability and dynamics of the ground state and nonlinear excitations, in the form of dark solitons, for a quasi-one-dimensional polariton condensate in the presence of pumping and nonlinear damping. We find a…