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We reveal that nonlocality can provide a simple physical mechanism for stabilization of multi-hump optical solitons, and present the first example of stable rotating dipole solitons and soliton spiraling, known to be unstable in all types…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-09-06 Servando Lopez-Aguayo , Anton S. Desyatnikov , Yuri S. Kivshar , Stefan Skupin , Wieslaw Krolikowski , Ole Bang

Non-Hermitian systems have been discussed mostly in the context of open systems and nonequilibrium. Recent experimental progress is much from optical, cold-atomic, and classical platforms due to the vast tunability and clear identification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Xiao-Xiao Zhang , Naoto Nagaosa

We investigate the self-organization of strongly interacting particles confined in 1D and 2D. We consider hardcore bosons in spinless Hubbard lattice models with short-range interactions. We show that many-body states with topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-12 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis

Topological defects in low-dimensional non-linear systems feature a sliding-to-pinning transition of relevance for a variety of research fields, ranging from biophysics to nano- and solid-state physics. We find that the dynamics after a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 L. Timm , H. Weimer , L. Santos , T. E. Mehlstäubler

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

Topological states can be used to control the mechanical properties of a material along an edge or around a localized defect. The surface rigidity of elastic networks is characterized by a bulk topological invariant called the polarization;…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Guido Baardink , Anton Souslov , Jayson Paulose , Vincenzo Vitelli

We show, by means of numerical and analytical methods, that media with a repulsive nonlinearity which grows from the center to the periphery support a remarkable variety of previously unknown complex stationary and dynamical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-19 Rodislav Driben , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Boris A. Malomed , Torsten Meier , Lluis Torner

Using the numerical solution of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and a variational method it is shown that (3+1)-dimensional spatiotemporal optical solitons, known as light bullets, can be stabilized in a layered Kerr medium with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Sadhan K. Adhikari

We demonstrate that families of vortex solitons are possible in a bi-dispersive three-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation. These solutions can be considered as extensions of two-dimensional dark vortex solitons which, along the third…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikolaos K. Efremidis , Kyriakos Hizanidis , Boris A. Malomed , Paolo Di Trapani

We analyse the topological transition and localization evolution of disordered two dimensional systems with non trivial topology based on bipartite lattices. Chern insulators with broken time reversal symmetry show non standard behavior for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Eduardo V. Castro , M. Pilar López-Sancho , María A. H. Vozmediano

We show that multipole solitons can be made stable via vectorial coupling in bulk nonlocal nonlinear media. Such vector solitons are composed of mutually incoherent nodeless and multipole components jointly inducing a nonlinear refractive…

We present and study new non-topological soliton solutions in the $U(1)$ gauged non-linear $O(3)$ sigma model with a symmetry breaking potential in 3+1 dimensional flat space-time. The configurations are endowed with an electric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-18 Luiz A. Ferreira , Aliaksei Mikhaliuk , Yakov Shnir

Photonic topological insulators exhibit bulk-boundary correspondence, which requires that boundary-localized states appear at the interface formed between topologically distinct insulating materials. However, many topological photonic…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-30 Kahlil Y. Dixon , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

Three-dimensional topological solitons attract a great deal of interest in fields ranging from particle physics to cosmology but remain experimentally elusive in solid-state magnets. Here we numerically predict magnetic heliknotons, an…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-28 Robert Voinescu , Jung-Shen B. Tai , Ivan I. Smalyukh

An overview is given of basic models combining discreteness in their linear parts (i.e. the models are built as dynamical lattices) and nonlinearity acting at sites of the lattices or between the sites. The considered systems include the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-03-31 Boris A. Malomed

Electric field induced collective reorientation of nematic molecules placed between two flat parallel electrodes is of importance for both fundamental science and practical applications. This reorientation is either homogeneous over the…

Nonlocality is a key feature of many physical systems since it prevents a catastrophic collapse and a symmetry-breaking azimuthal instability of intense wave beams in a bulk self-focusing nonlinear media. This opens up an intriguing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-16 V. M. Biloshytskyi , A. O. Oliynyk , P. M. Kruglenko , A. S. Desyatnikov , A. I. Yakimenko

We show that monolayer graphene intrinsically hosts higher-order topological corner states, in which electrons are localized topologically at atomic sizes. The emergence of the topological corner states in graphene is due to a nontrivial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 Feng Liu , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We study the stability of multipole-mode solitons in one-dimensional thermal nonlinear media. We show how the sample geometry impacts the stability of mutlipole-mode solitons and reveal that the tripole and quadrupole can be made stable in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-14 Liangwei Dong , Fangwei Ye

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