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In this paper, an existence theory is established for ring-profiled optical vortex solitons. We consider such solitons in the context of an electromagnetic light wave propagating in a self-focusing nonlinear media and governed by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Luciano Medina

A far-reaching goal of graphene research is exploiting the unique properties of carriers to realize extreme nonclassical electronic transport. Of particular interest is harnessing wavelike carriers to guide and direct them on submicron…

Conditions on the elastic stiffnesses of anisotropic crystals are derived such that circularly polarized longitudinal inhomogeneous plane waves with an isotropic slowness bivector may propagate for any given direction of the normal to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-09 Philippe Boulanger , Michel Destrade , Michael A. Hayes

We consider the ultrashort light pulse propagation through an inhomogeneous monomodal optical fiber exhibiting higher-order dispersive effects. Wave propagation is governed by a generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with varying…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-05-06 Houria Triki , Vladimir I. Kruglov

The system of coupled discrete equations describing a two-component superlattice with interlaced linear and nonlinear constituents is revisited as a basis for investigating binary waveguide arrays, such as ribbed AlGaAs structures, among…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Kyriakos Hizanidis , Yannis Kominis , Nikolaos K. Efremidis

Characterizing distinct electron wave packets is a basic task for solid-state electron quantum optics with applications in quantum metrology and sensing. A important circuit element for this task is a non-stationary potential barrier than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Elina Locane , Piet W. Brouwer , Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs

We study the propagation of discrete solitons on chains of coupled optical waveguides where finite networks of waveguides are inserted at some points. By properly selecting the topology of these networks, it is possible to control the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Burioni , D. Cassi , P. Sodano , A. Trombettoni , A. Vezzani

Solitons in nematic liquid crystals offer intriguing opportunities for transport and sensing in microfluidic systems. Little is known about the elementary conditions that are needed to create solitons in nematic materials. In this work,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-04 Xingzhou Tang , Ali Mozaffari , Noe Atzin , Soumik Das , Nicholas L. Abbott , Juan J. de Pablo

Using finite difference time domain and band structure computer simulations, we show that it is possible to construct optical cavities and waveguide architectures in hyperuniform disordered photonic solids that are unattainable in photonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-12 Marian Florescu , Salvatore Torquato , Paul Steinhardt

This paper investigates the stability of traveling wave solutions to the free boundary Euler equations with a submerged point vortex. We prove that sufficiently small-amplitude waves with small enough vortex strength are conditionally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-30 Kristoffer Varholm , Erik Wahlén , Samuel Walsh

Motivated by the study and simulation of long, coiled optical fibers we consider in this article a simplified model that is prevalent in the engineering community. Mathematically, the problem is specified as follows: Time-harmonic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Leszek Demkowicz , Martin Halla , Jens Markus Melenk

Wavelets offer significant advantages for the analysis of problems in quantum mechanics. Because wavelets are localized in both time and frequency they avoid certain subtle but potentially fatal conceptual errors that can result from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 John Ashmead

We study the propagation of ultra-short pulses in a cubic nonlinear medium. Using multiple-scale technique, we derive a new wave equation that preserves the nonlocal dispersion present in Maxwell's equations. As a result, we are able to…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Chung , T. Schaefer

The applied method of the amplitude envelopes give us the possibility to describe a new class of amplitude equations governing the propagation of optical pulses in media with dispersion, dispersionless media and vacuum. We normalized these…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Lubomir M. Kovachev

Propagation-invariant or non-diffracting optical beams have received considerable attention during the last two decades. However, the pulsed nature of light waves and the structured property of optical media like waveguides are often…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-23 Pierre Béjot , Bertrand Kibler

We disclose a class of stable nonlinear traveling waves moving at specific constant velocities within symmetric two-dimensional quantum droplets. We present a comprehensive analysis of these traveling bubbles and identify three…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-05-28 Angel Paredes , Jose Guerra-Carmenate , Jose R. Salgueiro , Daniele Tommasini , Humberto Michinel

A salient feature of solid-state topological materials in two dimensions is the presence of conducting electronic edge states that are insensitive to scattering by disorder. Such unidirectional edge states have been explored in many…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-28 Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman

When an optical pulse is spatially localized in a highly multimoded waveguide, its energy is typically distributed among a multiplicity of modes, thus giving rise to a speckled transverse spatial profile that undergoes erratic changes with…

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 predict that stable mobile spatio-temporal solitons can exist in arrays of periodically curved optical waveguides. We find two-dimensional light bullets in one-dimensional arrays with harmonic waveguide bending and three-dimensional…