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Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-06 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed

Excited states (ESs) of two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) solitons of the semivortex (SV) and mixed-mode (MM) types, supported by the interplay of the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and local nonlinearity in binary Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-30 Yuan Zhao , Qihong Huang , Tixian Gong , Siliu Xu , Zeping Li , Boris A. Malomed

The existence of stable solitons in two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) media governed by the self-focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a periodic potential is demonstrated by means of the variational approximation (VA)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 B. B. Baizakov , B. A. Malomed , M. Salerno

We address the properties of fully three-dimensional solitons in complex parity-time (PT)-symmetric periodic lattices with focusing Kerr nonlinearity, and uncover that such lattices can stabilize both, fundamental and vortex-carrying…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-18 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Chao Hang , Guoxiang Huang , Lluis Torner

We introduce a 2D network built of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimers with on-site cubic nonlinearity, the gain and loss elements of the dimers being linked by parallel square-shaped lattices. The system may be realized as a set of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Zhaopin Chen , Jingfeng Liu , Shenhe Fu , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed

This mini-review collects theoretical results predicting the creation of matter-wave solitons by the pseudo-spinor system of Gross-Pitaevskii equations (GPEs) with the self-attractive cubic nonlinearity and linear first-order-derivative…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-01 Boris A. Malomed

We present numerical results for three-dimensional (3D) solitons with symmetries of the semi-vortex (SV) and mixed-mode (MM) types, which can be created in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates of Rydberg atoms under the action of the spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-02 Yuan Zhao , Heng-Jie Hu , Qian-Qian Zhou , Zhang-Cai Qiu , Li Xue , Si-Liu Xu , Qin Zhou , Boris A. Malomed

We address the problem of existence and stability of vector spatial solitons formed by two incoherently interacting optical beams in bulk Kerr and saturable media. We identify families of (2+1)-dimensional two-mode self-trapped beams, with…

Bound states of solitons, alias soliton molecules (SMs), are well known in one-dimensional (1D) systems, while making stable bound states of multidimensional solitons is a challenging problem because of the underlying instabilities. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-10 Lu Qin , Chao Hang , Boris A. Malomed , Guoxiang Huang

We construct families of ordinary and gap solitons (GSs), including solitary vortices, in the two-dimensional (2D) system based on the nonlinear-Schr\"Aodinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equation with the 2D or quasi-1D (Q1D) periodic linear…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

We analyze a system of three two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations coupled by linear terms and with the cubic-quintic (focusing-defocusing) nonlinearity. We consider two versions of the model: conservative and parity-time…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-14 David Feijoo , Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

We demonstrate a robust, stable, mobile, two-dimensional (2D) spatial and three-dimensional (3D) spatiotemporal optical soliton in the core of an optical vortex, while all nonlinearities are of the cubic (Kerr) type. The 3D soliton can…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-11-03 S. K. Adhikari

The Kerr nonlinearity allows for exact analytic soliton solutions in 1+1D. While nothing excludes that these solitons form in naturally-occurring real-world 3D settings as solitary walls or stripes, their observation has previously been…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-05 Ludovica Falsi , Alberto Villois , Francesco Coppini , Aharon J. Agranat , Eugenio DelRe , Stefano Trillo

We study composite spatial optical solitons supported by two-wave mutual focusing induced by cross-phase modulation in Kerr-like nonlinear media. We find the families of both single- and two-hump solitons and discuss their properties and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-01 Jose R. Salgueiro , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

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

We present gap solitons (GSs) that can be created in free nearly two-dimensional (2D) space in dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensates with the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), subject to tight confinement, with size $a_{\perp }$, in the third…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-22 Yongyao Li , Yan Liu , Zhiwei Fan , Wei Pang , Shenhe Fu , Boris A. Malomed

The dynamics of two-component solitons is studied, analytically and numerically, in the framework of a system of coupled extended nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, which incorporate the cross-phase modulation,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-19 E. M. Gromov , B. A. Malomed , V. V. Tyutin

The existence and stability of stable bright solitons in one-dimensional (1D) media with a spatially periodical modulated Kerr nonlinearity are demonstrated by means of the linear-stability analysis and in direct numerical simulations. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-09-24 Liangwei Zeng , Jianhua Zeng

Two models of driven optical cavities, based on two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations, are introduced. The models include loss, the Kerr nonlinearity, diffraction in one transverse direction, and a combination of diffusion and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed