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Moire lattices consist of two identical periodic structures overlaid with a relative rotation angle. Present even in everyday life, moire lattices have been also produced, e.g., with coupled graphene-hexagonal boron nitride monolayers,…

We address the properties of fully three-dimensional solitons in complex parity-time (PT)-symmetric periodic lattices with focusing Kerr nonlinearity, and uncover that such lattices can stabilize both, fundamental and vortex-carrying…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-18 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Chao Hang , Guoxiang Huang , Lluis Torner

It is commonly known that stable bright solitons in periodic potentials, which represent gratings in photonics/plasmonics, or optical lattices in quantum gases, exist either in the spectral semi-infinite gap (SIG) or in finite bandgaps.…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-27 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

While fundamental-mode discrete solitons have been demonstrated with both self-focusing and defocusing nonlinearity, high-order-mode localized states in waveguide lattices have been studied thus far only for the self-focusing case. In this…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 P. G. Kevrekidis , H. Susanto , Z. Chen

The existence and stability of defect solitons supported by parity-time (PT) symmetric superlattices with nonlocal nonlinearity are investigated. In the semi-infinite gap, in-phase solitons are found to exist stably for positive or zero…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-17 Sumei Hu , Daquan Lu , Xuekai Ma , Qi Guo , Wei Hu

We suggest a method for creating bright matter solitons by loading a BEC of atoms in a driven tilted optical lattice. It is shown that one can realize the self-focussing regime for the wave-packet dynamics by properly adjusting the phase of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Andrey R. Kolovsky

We reveal that the competition between diffraction, cubic nonlinearity, two-photon absorption, and gain localized in both space and time results in arrest of collapse, suppression of azimuthal modula-tion instabilities for spatiotemporal…

Realizing single light bullets and vortices that are stable in high dimensions is a long-standing goal in the study of nonlinear optical physics. On the other hand, the storage and retrieval of such stable high dimensional optical pulses…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-06 Zhengyang Bai , Weibin Li , Guoxiang Huang

We report on the formation of dark discrete solitons in a nonlinear periodic system consisting of evanescently-coupled channel waveguides that are fabricated in defocusing lithium niobate. Localized nonlinear dark modes displaying a phase…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Eugene Smirnov , Christian E. Rueter , Milutin Stepic , Vladimir Shandarov , Detlef Kip

We construct a variety of novel localized states with distinct topological structures in the 3D discrete nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger equation. The states can be created in Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in strong optical lattices, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We study dynamical reshaping of polychromatic beams due to collective nonlinear self-action of multiple-frequency components in periodic photonic lattices and predict the formation of polychromatic discrete solitons facilitated by…

Optics · Physics 2009-04-01 Kristian Motzek , Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

Electromagnetically induced optical (or photonic) lattices via atomic coherence in atomic ensembles have recently received great theoretical and experimental interest. We here conceive a way to generate electromagnetically induced moir\'{e}…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Zhiming Chen , Xiuye Liu , Jianhua Zeng

We present a progress overview focused on the recent theoretical and experimental advances in the area of soliton manipulation in optical lattices. Optical lattices offer the possibility to engineer and to control the diffraction of light…

Optics · Physics 2009-07-07 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

We numerically demonstrate two-dimensional (2D) matter-wave solitons in the disk-shaped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) trapped in strongly anisotropic optical lattices (OLs) in a disk's plane. The considered OLs are square…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-25 Huaiyu Chen , Yan Liu , Qiang Zhang , Yuhan Shi , Wei Pang , Yongyao Li

Nonlinear periodic systems, such as photonic crystals and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) loaded into optical lattices, are often described by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a sinusoidal potential. Here, we…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-27 Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed

We propose two models for the creation of stable dissipative solitons in optical media with the $\chi^{(2)}$ (quadratic) nonlinearity. To compensate spatially uniform loss in both the fundamental-frequency (FF) and second-harmonic (SH)…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Valery E. Lobanov , Olga V. Borovkova , Boris A. Malomed

We elaborate a mechanism for the formation of stable solitons of the semi-vortex type (with vorticities 0 and 1 in their two components), populating a finite bandgap in the spectrum of the spin-orbit-coupled binary Bose-Einstein condensate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 H. Sakaguchi , B. A. Malomed

We analyze the existence, stability, and mobility of gap solitons in a periodic photonic structure with nonlocal nonlinearity. Within the Bragg region of band gaps, gap solitons exhibit better stability and higher mobility due to the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 YuanYao Lin , I-Hong Chen , Ray-Kuang Lee

We predict a scheme for the creation of isotropic three-dimensional droplets in Rydbeg-dressed Bose gases, which contain both repulsive contact interactions and attractive van der Waals interactions causing the quantum fluctuation effect…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-05 Hao Zhu , Yong-Yao Li , Wen-Kai Bai , Yan-Mei Yu , Lin Zhuang , Wu-Ming Liu

Collisions of left- and right-polarized spatiotemporal optical solitons have been numerically simulated for a locally isotropic focusing Kerr medium with anomalous chromatic dispersion. The stable propagation of such ``light bullets'' in a…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-20 Victor P. Ruban