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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

We show that dark solitons in 1D Bose liquids may be created by absorption of a single quanta of an external ac field, in a close analogy with the Einstein's photoelectric effect. Similarly to the von Lenard's experiment with photoexcited…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-09 M. Khodas , A. Kamenev , L. I. Glazman

Supersymmetry implies that stable non-topological solitons, Q-balls, could form in the early universe and could make up all or part of dark matter. We show that the relic Q-balls passing through Earth can produce a detectable neutrino flux.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-03 Alexander Kusenko , Ian M. Shoemaker

While particles cannot travel faster than the speed of light, nor can information, this assumption has over the years been frequently questioned. Most recently, it has been argued [New J. Phys. 22, 033038 (2020)] that in a world with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Amrapali Sen , Matthias Salzger , Łukasz Rudnicki

The question of whether it is possible or not to surpass the speed of light is already centennial. The special theory of relativity took the existence of a speed limit as a principle, the light postulate, which has proven to be enormously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-29 Carlos Barceló , Stefano Finazzi , Stefano Liberati

A large body of experimental evidence suggests that the decay of the false vacuum, accompanied by quantum pair creation of soliton domain walls, can occur in a variety of condensed matter systems. Examples include nucleation of charge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 J. H. Miller , G. Cardenas , A. Garcia-Perez , W. More , A. W. Beckwith

The well known light filaments are obtained in various media whose index of refraction increases before a saturation with the electric field; adding a small perturbation which increases the index with the magnetic field, and neglecting the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacques Moret-Bailly

A fully analytical theory of a traveling soliton in a one-dimensional fermionic superfluid is developed within the framework of time-dependent self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations, which are solved exactly in the Andreev…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-28 Dmitry K. Efimkin , Victor Galitski

A variety of solitary waves, such as solitons, vortex rings, solitonic vortices, and more complex entities, have recently been predicted to exist. They can move in superfluid ultracold gases along elongated traps. The theoretical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-15 L. P. Pitaevskii

Einstein originally proposed a nonsymmetric tensor field, with its symmetric part associated with the spacetime metric and its antisymmetric part associated with the electromagnetic field, as an approach to a unified field theory. Here we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 J. R. van Meter

Superluminal preons (superbradyons) with a critical speed in vacuum much larger than the speed of light would, if they exist, play a fundamental role as constituents of the physical vacuum and of the conventional particles considered in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-15 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

Superluminal particles are not excluded by particle physics. The apparent Lorentz invariance of the laws of physics does not imply that space-time is indeed minkowskian. Matter made of solutions of Lorentz-invariant equations would feel a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis Gonzalez-Mestres

The Einstein-Hilbert worldspace action is used to investigate the dynamics of extended object. In the Robertson-Walker worldspace, this is seen to introduce a pressureless density which could contribute to dark matter. Such pressureless…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Khanal

We explore the space of solutions of the classical equations of motion in the Euclidean electroweak theory. We sketch a topological prescription that finds known solutions and indicates the existence of novel ones. All spatially-varying,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Vishesh Khemani

We explore the classical production of solitons in the easy axis O(3) model in 1+1 dimensions, for a wide range of initial conditions that correspond to the scattering of small breathers. We characterize the fractal nature of the region in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-11 Henry Lamm , Tanmay Vachaspati

One dimensional analysis is presented of solitary positive potential plasma structures whose velocity lies within the range of ion distribution velocities that are strongly populated: so called "slow" electron holes. It is shown that to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 I H Hutchinson

The understanding of the physics of lasermatter interactions in the strongly relativistic regime is of fundamental importance. In this article, a new mechanism of fast electron generation at the vacuum-solid boundary of intense laser pulse…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 T. Baeva , S. Gordienko , A. P. L. Robinson , P. A. Norreys

Relativistic solitons are self-trapped, finite size, electromagnetic waves of relativistic intensity that propagate without diffraction spreading. They have been predicted theoretically within the relativistic fluid approximation, and have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Daniela Farina , Sergei V. Bulanov

The Tolman paradox is well known as a base for demonstrating the causality violation by faster-than-light signals within special relativity. It is constructed using a two-way exchange of faster-than-light signals between two inertial…

General Physics · Physics 2017-10-31 Vassili F. Perepelitsa

The theoretical foundation of the object moving faster than light in vacuum ({\it tachyon}) is still missing or incomplete. Here we present the classical foundation of the relativistic dynamics including the tachyon. An anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Mu-In Park , Young-Jai Park