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Solitary wave and soliton solutions of nonlinear equations are well known for physicists. A soliton is a solitary wave with some outstanding features which make it reasonable to be studied seriously in nonlinear systems. In fact most of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2010-04-28 Azizollah Azizi , Mohammad Mohammadi

We present a brief overview of the basic concepts of the soliton stability theory and discuss some characteristic examples of the instability-induced soliton dynamics, in application to spatial optical solitons described by the NLS-type…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-04-23 Yuri S. Kivshar , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

We construct families of one-dimensional (1D) stable solitons in two-component $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quintic nonlinearity, which plays the critical role in 1D setups. The system models light…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Gennadiy Burlak , Zhaopin Chen , Boris A. Malomed

A ship, moving with small acceleration in a reservoir of uniform depth, can be subjected to a sudden hydrodynamical impact similar to collision with an underwater rock, and on water surface unusual solitary wave will start running. The…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2008-01-16 Stanyslav Zakharov , Alexey Kryukov

Optical solitons are self-sustained wave packets that propagate without distortion due to a balance between dispersion and nonlinearity. Their unique stability underpins key photonic applications while also playing a central role in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-04 François Copie , Pierre Suret , Stéphane Randoux

We study the behavior of nonlinear waves in a two-dimensional medium with density and stress relation that vary periodically in space. Efficient approximate Riemann solvers are developed for the corresponding variable-coefficient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-18 Manuel Quezada de Luna David I. Ketcheson

We analyze the existence and stability of bright, dark, and gap matter-wave solitons in optical superlattices. Then, using these properties, we show that (time-dependent) ``dynamical superlattices'' can be used to controllably place, guide,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-González , D. J. Frantzeskakis

Soliton fusion is a fascinating and delicate phenomenon that manifests itself in optical fibers in case of interaction between co-propagating solitons with small temporal and wavelengths separation. We show that the mechanism of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rodislav Driben , Ihar Babushkin

Topological materials exhibit properties dictated by quantised invariants that make them robust against perturbations. This topological protection is a universal wave phenomenon that applies not only in the context of electrons in…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-26 Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman

Soliton gases represent large random soliton ensembles in physical systems that display integrable dynamics at the leading order. We report hydrodynamic experiments in which we investigate the interaction between two "beams" or "jets" of…

Solitons are non-dispersing localized waves that occur in diverse physical settings. A variety of optical solitons have been observed, but versions that involve both spatial and temporal degrees of freedom are rare. Optical fibers designed…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 William H. Renninger , Frank W. Wise

We investigate numerically light propagation in a single spiral waveguide formed in a nonlinear photorefractive medium for a low spatial frequency of the waveguide rotation. We present the general procedure for finding solitonic solutions…

The Korteweg-de Vries and Benjamin-Ono nonlinear wave equations can describe solitary waves, all of which propagate in the same direction and which emerge from collisions with their shapes unchanged. There are technical challenges to giving…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-11-01 Brett Altschul

Soliton solutions are studied for paraxial wave propagation with intensity-dependent dispersion. Although the corresponding Lagrangian density has a singularity, analytical solutions, derived by the pseudo-potential method and the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-04-22 Chun-Yan Lin , Jen-Hsu Chang , Gershon Kurizki , Ray-Kuang Lee

This paper investigates solitary water waves propagating along the surface of a two-dimensional dielectric fluid with constant vorticity in the presence of an external electric field. We formulate the system as a nonlinear free boundary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Tingting Feng , Yong Zhang , Zhitao Zhang

The nonlinear propagation of internal gravity waves in the weakly ionized, incompressible Earth's ionosphere is studied using the fluid theory approach. Previous theory in the literature is advanced by the effects of the terrestrial…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 T. D. Kaladze , A. P. Misra , A. Roy , D. Chatterjee

Solitons are nonlinear solitary waves which maintain their shape over time and through collisions, occurring in a variety of nonlinear media from plasmas to optics. We present an experimental and theoretical study of hydrodynamic phenomena…

We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying scattering length. It is demonstrated that, even in the absence of any external trapping potential, a soliton can be confined due to the inhomogeneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Theocharis , P. Schmelcher , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

The conditions under which stable evolution of two nonlinear interacting waves are derived within the context of nematic crystals. Two cases are considered: plane waves and solitons. In the first case, the modulation instability analysis…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-10-12 Theodoros P. Horikis

We demonstrate the existence of dynamically stable multihump solitary waves in polaron-type models describing interaction of envelope and lattice excitations. In comparison with the earlier theory of multihump optical solitons [see Phys.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-10-31 Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Serge F. Mingaleev , Yuri S. Kivshar , Yuri B. Gaididei , Peter L. Christiansen