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Discrete fundamental and dipole solitons are constructed, in an exact analytical form, in an array of linear waveguides with an embedded $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric dimer, which is composed of two nonlinear waveguides carrying equal gain and…

We study the influences to the discrete soliton (DS) by introducing linearly long-range nonlocal interactions, which give rise to the off-diagonal elements of the linearly coupled matrix in the discrete nonlinear schrodinger equation to be…

Optics · Physics 2014-11-24 Zhijie Mai , Shenhe Fu , Jianxiong Wu , Yongyao Li

We address the existence and stability of two-dimensional solitons in optical or matter-wave media, which are supported by purely nonlinear lattices in the form of a periodic array of cylinders with self-focusing nonlinearity, embedded into…

We study the mobility of small-amplitude solitons attached to moving defects which drag the solitons across a two-dimensional (2D) discrete nonlinear-Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) lattice. Findings are compared to the situation when a free…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-01 V. A. Brazhnyi , B. A. Malomed

This is a review addressing soliton-like states in systems with nonlocal nonlinearity. The work on this topic has long history. Some findings, such as optical solitons supported by thermal nonlinearity, and by the orientational nonlinearity…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-20 Boris A. Malomed

We study the dynamics of solitons under the action of one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice potentials, fractional diffraction, and nonlinearity. The formation and stability of the solitons is investigated in the framework of the fractional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-11 Eduard Pavlyshynets , Luca Salasnich , Boris A. Malomed , Alexander Yakimenko

We put forward new properties of lattice solitons in materials and geometries where both, the linear refractive index and the nonlinearity are spatially modulated. We show that the interplay between linear and out-of-phase nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

We study soliton dynamics in a system of two linearly coupled discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, which describe the dynamics of a two-component Bose gas, coupled by an electromagnetic field, and confined in a strong optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-04-20 A. Trombettoni , H. E. Nistazakis , Z. Rapti , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

The stabilization of one-dimensional solitons by a nonlinear lattice against the critical collapse in the focusing quintic medium is a challenging issue. We demonstrate that this purpose can be achieved by combining a…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jincheng Shi , Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

The Ablowitz-Ladik system, being one of the few integrable nonlinear lattices, admits a wide class of analytical solutions, ranging from exact spatially localised solitons to rational solutions in the form of the spatiotemporally localised…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-05-04 Dirk Hennig , Nikos I. Karachalios , Jesus Cuevas-Maraver

We analyze the existence and stability of localized solutions in the one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation with a combination of competing self-focusing cubic and defocusing quintic onsite nonlinearities. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , J. D. Talley , C. Chong , B. A. Malomed

We consider an array of dual-core waveguides, which represent an optical realization of a chain of dimers, with an active (gain-loss) coupling between the cores, opposite signs of discrete diffraction in the parallel arrays, and a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-06-11 O. B. Kirikchi , B. A. Malomed , N. Karjanto , R. Kusdiantara , H. Susanto

We develop a general classification of the infinite number of families of solitons and soliton complexes in the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii/nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a nonlinear lattice pseudopotential, i.e., periodically…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-08-03 M. E. Lebedev , G. L. Alfimov , Boris A. Malomed

We develop stability analysis for matter-wave solitons in a two-dimensional (2D) Bose-Einstein condensate loaded in an optical lattice (OL), to which periodic time modulation is applied, in different forms. The stability is studied by dint…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-12-08 Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed

We model discrete spatial solitons in a periodic nonlinear medium encompassing any degree of transverse non locality. Making a convenient reference to a widely used material -nematic liquid crystals-, we derive a new form of the discrete…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrea Fratalocchi , Gaetano Assanto

Discrete solitons of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (dNLS) equation become compactly supported in the anti-continuum limit of the zero coupling between lattice sites. Eigenvalues of the linearization of the dNLS equation at the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-06 Dmitry Pelinovsky , Anton Sakovich

The interaction of moving discrete solitons with a linear Gaussian defect is investigated. Solitons with profiles varying from hyperbolic secant to exponentially localized are considered such that the mobility of soliton is maintained; the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-07-17 Valeriy A. Brazhnyi , Chandroth P. Jisha , A. S. Rodrigues

We analytically study plasma solitary waves, or solitons, in a two-dimensional (2D) electron system (ES) placed in close proximity to and between two ideal metallic gates. As a rule, solitons are described using a perturbative approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 A. A. Zabolotnykh

We propose a consideration of the properties of the two-dimensional Ablowitz-Ladik discretization of the ubiquitous nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) model. We use singularity confinement techniques to suggest that the relevant discretization…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-07-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , G. J. Herring , S. Lafortune , Q. E. Hoq

We explore a prototypical two-dimensional model of the nonlinear Dirac type and examine its solitary wave and vortex solutions. In addition to identifying the stationary states, we provide a systematic spectral stability analysis,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-01 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena , A. Comech , R. Lan