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We investigate the propagation of light beams including Hermite-Gauss, Bessel-Gauss and finite energy Airy beams in a linear medium with parabolic potential. Expectedly, the beams undergo oscillation during propagation, but quite…

Physics of counterpropagating optical beams and spatial optical solitons is reviewed, including the formation of stationary states and spatiotemporal instabilities. First, several models describing the evolution and interactions between…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-27 M. Petrovic , M. Belic , C. Denz , Yu. Kivshar

With the intriguing properties of diffraction-free, self-accelerating, and self-healing, Airy plasmons are promising to be used in the trapping, transporting, and sorting of micro-objects, imaging, and chip scale signal processing. However,…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-26 Rujiang Li , Muhammad Imran , Xiao Lin , Huaping Wang , Zhiwei Xu , Hongsheng Chen

The evolution of jets showers in high energy nuclear collisions is influenced in various ways by the presence of a surrounding medium. The interaction of jet constituents with the medium can happen during the partonic stage of the jet,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-22 Arjun Sengupta , Rainer J. Fries

We classify the interactions between self-propelled particles moving at a constant speed from symmetry considerations. We establish a systematic expansion for the two-body forces in the spirit of a multipolar expansion. This formulation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-24 Jean-Baptiste Caussin , Denis Bartolo

The transmission spectrum of two dipole-dipole coupled atoms interacting with a single-mode optical cavity in strong coupling regime is investigated theoretically for the lower and higher excitation cases, respectively. The dressed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 Yuqing Zhang , Lei Tan , Peter Barker

We study trajectories of d-dimensional Brownian Motion in Poissonian potential up to the hitting time of a distant hyper-plane. Our Poissonian potential V can be associated to a field of traps whose centers location is given by a Poisson…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Hubert Lacoin

In the present paper we consider the nonlinear interaction of high frequency intense electromagnetic (EM) beam with degenerate electron plasmas. In a slowly varying envelop approximation the beam dynamics is described by the couple of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 V. I. Berezhiani , Z. N. Osmanov , S. M. Mahajan , S. V. Mikeladze

Because active particles break time-reversal symmetry, an active fluid can sustain currents even without an external drive. We show that when a passive body is placed in a fluid of pairwise interacting active particles, it generates…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Omer Granek , Yongjoo Baek , Yariv Kafri , Alexandre P. Solon

The Talbot like effect of symmetric Pearcey beams (SPBs) is presented numerically and experimentally in the free space. Owing to the Talbot like effect, the SPBs have the property of periodic and multiple autofocusing. Meanwhile, the focal…

Using two-dimensional hybrid-kinetic simulations, we explore the nonlinear "interruption" of standing and traveling shear-Alfv\'en waves in collisionless plasmas. Interruption involves a self-generated pressure anisotropy removing the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 J. Squire , M. W. Kunz , E. Quataert , A. A. Schekochihin

Interactions between internal solitary waves and floating canopies of varying length and porosity are examined via laboratory experiments and complementary simulations for a miscible, two-layer system. In both approaches, internal solitary…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-05 Jen-Ping Chu , Mitul Luhar , Patrick Lynett

We probe acoustic phonon mediated relaxation between tunnel coupled exciton states in an individual quantum dot molecule in which the inter-dot quantum coupling and energy separation between exciton states is continuously tuned using static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-10 T. Nakaoka , H. J. Krenner , E. C. Clark , M. Sabathil , M. Bichler , Y. Arakawa , G. Abstreiter , J. J. Finley

The propagation of localized solitons in the presence of large-scale waves is a fundamental problem, both physically and mathematically, with applications in fluid dynamics, nonlinear optics and condensed matter physics. Here, the evolution…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-07-14 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole , Gennady A. El , Mark A. Hoefer , Xu-dan Luo

The dynamics of two component coupled Airy beams is investigated. In the linear propagation regime a complete analytic solution describes breather like propagation of the two components featuring non-diffracting self-accelerating Airy…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 R. Driben , V. V. Konotop , T. Meier

We investigate the quantum recoil force acting on an excited atom close to the surface of a nonreciprocal photonic topological insulator (PTI). The main atomic emission channel is the unidirectional surface-plasmon propagating at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj , George W. Hanson , Mauro Antezza , Mário G. Silveirinha

Self-accelerating Airy matter waves offer a clean setting to access the cubic Kennard phase. Here we reconstruct the relative phase of simulated Airy-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates in free space, a regime approached in microgravity, from…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-03 Maximilian L. D. D. Pellner , Georgi Gary Rozenman

Plasma-based accelerators are beginning to employ relativistic beams with unprecedented charge and ultrashort durations. These dense driver beams can drive wakes even in high-density plasmas ($\gtrsim10^{19}$ cm$^{-3}$), where betatron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Pablo J. Bilbao , Thales Silva , Luis O. Silva

Parity-time (PT) symmetry has attracted a lot of attention since the concept of pseudo-Hermitian dynamics of open quantum systems was first demonstrated two decades ago. Contrary to their Hermitian counterparts, non-conservative…

Surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) have been widely exploited in various scientific communities, ranging from physics, chemistry to biology, due to the strong confinement of light to the metal surface. For many applications it is important…