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In this paper we present thoughtful comments on the paper `Bessel beams and signal propagation' showing that the main claims of that paper are wrong. Moreover, we take the opportunity to show the non trivial and indeed surprising result…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Capelas de Oliveira , W. A. Rodrigues , D. S. Thober , A. L. Xavier

We present a significantly different reflection process from an optically thin flat metallic or dielectric layer and propose a strikingly simple method to form approximately unipolar half-cycle optical pulses via reflection of a…

Using the idealized integrable Maxwell-Bloch model, we describe random optical-pulse polarization switching along an active optical medium in the Lambda-configuration with disordered occupation numbers of its lower energy sub-level pair.…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ethan P. Atkins , Peter R. Kramer , Gregor Kovacic , Ildar R. Gabitov

We investigate exact travelling wave solutions of higher order nonlinear Schrodinger equation in the absence of third order dispersion, which exhibit non-trivial self phase modulation. It is shown that, the corresponding dynamical equation,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-06-01 Anshul Saini , Vivek M. Vyas , S. N. Pandey , T. Solomon Raju , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We consider an $N$-soliton solution of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. We give conditions for the synchronous collision of these $N$ solitons. When the solitons velocities are well separated and the solitons have equal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-15 Manuela Girotti , Tamara Grava , Robert Jenkins , Guido Mazzuca , Ken McLaughlin , Maxim Yattselev

Exact solutions of Einstein's vacuum equations are considered which describe gravitational waves with distinct wavefronts. A family of such solutions presented recently in which the wavefronts have various geometries and which propagate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 G A Alekseev , J B Griffiths

We study localized nonlinear waves on a plane wave background in the multiple self-induced transparency (SIT) system, which describes an important enhancement of the amplification and control of optical waves compared to the single SIT…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-10-11 Xin Wang , Chong Liu

We investigate dynamical properties of bright solitons with a finite background in the F=1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), based on an integrable spinor model which is equivalent to the matrix nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Tetsuo Kurosaki , Miki Wadati

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

We demonstrate that pulses of linear physical systems, weakly perturbed by nonlinear dissipation, exhibit soliton-like behavior in fast collisions. The behavior is demonstrated for linear waveguides with weak cubic loss and for systems…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-12-06 Avner Peleg , Quan M. Nguyen , Toan T. Huynh

In the present paper we consider an optical system with a $\chi^{(2)}$-type nonlinearity and unspecified $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potential functions. Considering this as an inverse problem and positing a family of exact solutions in terms…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-06 Y. N. Truong Vu , J. D'Ambroise , P. G. Kevrekidis , F. Kh. Abdullaev

We theoretically investigate the scattering of bright solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate on narrow attractive potential wells. Reflection, transmission and trapping of an incident soliton are predicted to occur with remarkably abrupt…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-25 T. Ernst , J. Brand

A rigorous theoretical investigation has been made on electron acoustic wave propagating in unmagnetized collisionless plasma consisting of a cold electron fluid, non-thermal hot electrons and stationary ions. Based on the pseudo-potential…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-14 S. A. El-Wakil , E. K. El-Shewy , H. M. Abd-El-Hamid , E. M. Abulwafa

We develop a direct method for solving a modified Camassa-Holm equation with cubic nonlinearity and linear dispersion under the rapidly decreasing vanishing boundary condition. We obtain a compact parametric representation for the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 Yoshimasa Matsuno

We consider 2D Maxwell-Lorentz equations with extended charged rotating particle. The system admits solitons which are solutions corresponding to a particle moving with a constant velocity and rotating with a constant angular velocity. Our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Elena Kopylova

We study families of solitons in a two-dimensional (2D) model of the light transmission through a photorefractive medium equipped with a (quasi-)one-dimensional photonic lattice. The soliton families are bounded from below by finite minimum…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo , Boris A. Malomed

The classical free-space solutions of Maxwell's equations for light propagation in one dimension include wave packets of any shape that travel at the speed of light. This includes highly-localised wave packets that remain localised at all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Daniel Hodgson , Jake Southall , Robert Purdy , Almut Beige

The experimental demonstration of Bose-Einstein condensation in atomic vapors has rapidly lead to new advances in atom optics. It is now well established that two-body collisions play for matter waves a role analogous to that of a Kerr…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Potting , P. Meystre , E. M. Wright

Characterizing electromagnetic wave propagation in nonlinear and inhomogeneous media is of great interest from both theoretical and practical perspectives, even though it is extremely complicated. In fact, it is still an unresolved issue to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-04-28 Liang Hu , Xiao Zhang , Dazhi Zhao , MaoKang Luo

Starting from the Vlasov-Maxwell equations describing the dynamics of various species in a quasi-neutral plasma, an exact relativistic hydrodynamic closure for a special type of water-bag distributions satisfying the Vlasov equation has…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Stephan I. Tzenov