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The existence and stability of stable bright solitons in one-dimensional (1D) media with a spatially periodical modulated Kerr nonlinearity are demonstrated by means of the linear-stability analysis and in direct numerical simulations. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-09-24 Liangwei Zeng , Jianhua Zeng

Solitons are typically stable objects in 1D models, but their straightforward extensions to 2D and 3D settings tend to be unstable. In particular, the ubiquitous nonlinear Schroedinger (NLS) equation with the cubic self-focusing, creates…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-11-02 Boris Malomed

We analyze the existence and stability of two kinds of self-trapped spatially localized gap modes, gap solitons and truncated nonlinear Bloch waves, in one-and two-dimensional optical or matter-wave media with self-focusing nonlinearity,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-09-25 Jincheng Shi , Jianhua Zeng

The article provides a survey of (chiefly, theoretical) results obtained for self-trapped modes (solitons) in various models of one-dimensional optical waveguides based on a pair of parallel guiding cores, which combine the linear…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-18 Boris A. Malomed

A model including two nonlinear chains with linear and nonlinear couplings between them, and opposite signs of the discrete diffraction inside the chains, is introduced. For [$\chi ^{(3)}$] nonlinearity, the model finds two different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , Z. Musslimani

In the present work we explore features of single and pairs of solitary waves in a fractional variant of the nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. Motivated by the recent experimental realization of arbitrary fractional exponents, upon…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-20 Robert J. Decker , A. Demirkaya , T. J. Alexander , P. G. Kevrekidis

We study a discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattice with a parabolic trapping potential. The model, describing, e.g., an array of repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate droplets confined in the wells of an optical lattice, is analytically and…

In the present work, we consider a variety of two-component, one-dimensional states in nonlinear Schrodinger equations in the presence of a parabolic trap, inspired by the atomic physics context of Bose-Einstein condensates. The use of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-06-28 Haitao Xu , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis , Todd Kapitula

We introduce a setting based on the one-dimensional (1D) nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLSE) with the self-focusing (SF) cubic term modulated by a singular function of the coordinate, |x|^{-a}. It may be additionally combined with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Olga V. Borovkova , Valery E. Lobanov , Boris A. Malomed

We introduce a time-dependent model for the generation of joint solitary waveguides by counter-propagating light beams in a photorefractive crystal. Depending on initial conditions, beams form stable steady-state structures or display…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Belic , Ph. Jander , A. Strinic , A. Desyatnikov , C. Denz

We study a two-component nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger system with equal, repulsive cubic interactions and different dispersion coefficients in the two components. We consider states that have a dark solitary wave in one component. Treating…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-28 E. G. Charalampidis , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , B. A. Malomed

Stability is an essential problem in theoretical and experimental studies of solitons in nonlinear media with fractional diffraction, which is represented by the Riesz derivative with Levy index (LI) taking values LI < 2. Fractional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-26 Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo , Boris A. Malomed

We discuss the formation of self-trapped localized states near the edge of a semi-infinite array of nonlinear waveguides. We study a crossover from nonlinear surface states to discrete solitons by analyzing the families of odd and even…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 M. I. Molina , R. A. Vicencio , Y. S. Kivshar

Solitons in the fractional space, supported by lattice potentials, have recently attracted much interest. We consider the limit of deep one- and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) lattices in this system, featuring finite bandgaps separated by…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-10 Xiuye Liu , Boris A. Malomed , Jianhua Zeng

In a benchmark dynamical-lattice model in three dimensions, the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger equation, we find discrete vortex solitons with various values of the topological charge $S$. Stability regions for the vortices with…

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

We report results for solitons in models of waveguides with focusing or defocusing saturable nonlinearity and a parity-time(PT )-symmetric complex-valued external potential of the Scarf-II type. The model applies to the nonlinear wave…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-11 Pengfei Li , Dumitru Mihalache , Boris A. Malomed

Solitary waves in one-dimensional periodic media are discussed employing the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic potential as a model. This equation admits two families of gap solitons that bifurcate from the edges of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-09-06 T. R. Akylas , Guenbo Hwang , Jianke Yang

In the present work we consider the subject of dark fractional solitary waves in the realm of generalized (fractional) forms of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. While earlier studies have examined such states in the realm of real…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-21 Almudena P. Márquez , Jesús Cuevas-Maraver , Panayotis G. Kevrekidis

We demonstrate the existence of two species of stable bright solitons, fundamental and dipole ones, in one-dimensional self-defocusing nonlocal media, with the local value of nonlinearity coefficient having one or several minima and growing…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yingji He , Boris A. Malomed

We consider in detail the self-trapping of a soliton from a wave pulse that passes from a defocussing region into a focussing one in a spatially inhomogeneous nonlinear waveguide, described by a nonlinear Schrodinger equation in which the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 S. R. Clarke , R. H. J. Grimshaw , Boris A. Malomed
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