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We introduce spatiotemporal spinning solitons (vortex tori) of the three-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation with focusing cubic and defocusing quintic nonlinearities. The first ever found completely stable spatiotemporal vortex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Mihalache , D. Mazilu , L. -C. Crasovan , I. Towers , A. V. Buryak , B. A. Malomed , L. Torner , J. P. Torres , F. Lederer

We investigate the dynamics of travelling oscillating solitons of the cubic NLS equation under an external spatiotemporal forcing of the form $f(x,t) = a \exp[iK(t)x]$. For the case of time-independent forcing a stability criterion for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-11 Franz G. Mertens , Niurka R. Quintero , I. V. Barashenkov , A. R. Bishop

It has been recently discovered that stabilization of two-dimensional (2D) solitons against the critical collapse in media with the cubic nonlinearity by means of nonlinear lattices (NLs) is a challenging problem. We address the 1D version…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

The stability of two-dimensional bright vortex solitons in a media with focusing cubic and defocusing quintic nonlinearities is investigated analytically and numerically. It is proved that above some critical beam powers not only one- and…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. A. Davydova , A. I. Yakimenko

We demonstrate that the commonly known concept, which treats solitons as nonsingular solutions produced by the interplay of nonlinear self-attraction and linear dispersion, may be extended to include modes with a relatively weak singularity…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-02-19 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed

We demonstrate that modulation of the local strength of the cubic self-focusing (SF) nonlinearity in the two-dimensional (2D) geometry, in the form of a circle with contrast $\Delta g$ of the SF coefficient relative to the ambient medium…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-13 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed

This paper concerns with the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation on R^2. A family of new variational problems related to the solitons are introduced and solved. Some key monotonicity and uniqueness results are obtained. Then…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Yi Jiang , Chenglin Wang , Yibin Xiao , Jian Zhang , Shihui Zhu

This paper deals with the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation on R^3. Two monotonicity conjectures for solitons posed by Killip, Oh, Pocovnicu and Visan are completely resolved: one concerning frequency monotonicity, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Jian Zhang , Chenglin Wang , Shihui Zhu

We show that the quadratic interaction of fundamental and second harmonics in a bulk dispersive medium, combined with self-defocusing cubic nonlinearity, give rise to completely localized spatiotemporal solitons (vortex tori) with vorticity…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Mihalache , D. Mazilu , L. C. Crasovan , I. Towers , B. A. Malomed , A. V. Buryak , L. Torner , F. Lederer

Competing nonlinearities, such as the cubic (Kerr) and quintic nonlinear terms whose strengths are of opposite signs (the coefficients in front of the nonlinearities), exist in various physical media (in particular, in optical and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-10-23 Liangwei Zeng , Jianhua Zeng

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 report that defocusing cubic media with spatially inhomogeneous nonlinearity, whose strength increases rapidly enough toward the periphery, can support stable bright localized modes. Such nonlinearity landscapes give rise to a variety of…

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 consider a lattice equation (Salerno model) combining onsite self-focusing and intersite self-defocusing cubic terms, which may describe a Bose-Einstein condensate of dipolar atoms trapped in a strong periodic potential. In the continuum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gomez-Gardenes , B. A. Malomed , L. M. Floria , A. R. Bishop

In this paper, we show the orbital stability of solitons arising in the cubic derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equations. We consider the zero mass case that is not covered by earlier works [8, 3]. As this case enjoys L^2 scaling…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Soonsik Kwon , Yifei Wu

We consider soliton dynamics and stability in a nonlinear lattice formed by alternating domains with focusing cubic and saturable nonlinearities. We find that in such lattices solitons centered on cubic domains may be stabilized even in…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Olga V. Borovkova , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lluis Torner

In this paper we give a simple and short proof of asymptotic stability of soliton for discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation near anti-continuous limit. Our novel insight is that the analysis of linearized operator, usually…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Masaya Maeda , Masafumi Yoneda

We establish the full asymptotic stability of solitary wave solutions for the 1D focusing cubic Schr\"odinger equation on the line under small perturbations in weighted Sobolev spaces, building upon our results in [58]. The proof integrates…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Yongming Li

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 investigate the orbital stability of black solitons for a broad class of quasilinear Schr\"odinger equations in one space dimension, with nonzero boundary conditions at infinity. Namely, our framework handles general defocusing…

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