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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

Solitons, nonlinear particle-like excitations with inalterable properties (amplitude, shape, and velocity) as they propagate, are omnipresent in many branches of science---and in physics in particular. Flat-top solitons are a novel type of…

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

We consider a dynamical model for a Fermi gas in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superfluid state, trapped in a combination of a 1D or 2D optical lattice (OL) and a tight parabolic potential acting in the transverse direction(s). The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 S. K. Adhikari , B. A. Malomed

Two-dimensional (2D) equations describing the nonlinear interaction between upper-hybrid and dispersive magnetosonic waves are presented. Nonlocal nonlinearity in the equations results in the possibility of existence of stable 2D nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. M. Lashkin

This paper is concerned with a lattice model which is suited to square-rectangle transformations characterized by two strain components. The microscopic model involves nonlinear and competing interactions, which play a key role in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Ioannidou , J. Pouget , E. Aifantis

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

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

We introduce a one-dimensional system combining the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric complex periodic potential and the $\chi ^{(2)}$ (second-harmonic-generating) nonlinearity. The imaginary part of the potential, which represents spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-08-23 F. C. Moreira , V. V Konotop , B. A. Malomed

We consider a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in an array of two-well systems with an arbitrary orientations of the dipoles relative to the system's axis. The system can be built as a chain of local traps sliced into two parallel…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-05 Zhiwei Fan , Yuhan Shi , Yan Liu , Wei Pang , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed

We study the existence, stability, and mobility of fundamental discrete solitons in two- and three-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger lattices with a combination of cubic self-focusing and quintic self-defocusing onsite nonlinearities.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-11 C. Chong , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , B. A. Malomed , P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider two-component solitons in a medium with a periodic modulation of the nonlinear coefficient. The modulation enables the existence of complex multihump vector states. In particular, vector solitons composed of dipole and…

We introduce a model of three parallel-coupled nonlinear waveguiding cores equipped with Bragg gratings (BGs), which form an equilateral triangle. The objective of the work is to investigate solitons and their stability in this system. New…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Arthur Gubeskys , Boris A. Malomed

It is known that optical-lattice (OL) potentials can stabilize solitons and solitary vortices against the critical collapse, generated by the cubic attractive nonlinearity in the 2D geometry. We demonstrate OLs can also stabilize various…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Rodislav Driben , Boris A. Malomed

We introduce a system combining the quadratic self-attractive or composite quadratic-cubic nonlinearity, acting in the combination with the fractional diffraction, which is characterized by its L\'{e}vy index $\alpha $. The model applies to…

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

Using the variational approximation(VA) and direct simulations, we find stable 2D and 3D solitons in the self-attractive Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) with a potential which is uniform in one direction ($z$) and periodic in the others…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-13 B. B. Baizakov , B. A. Malomed , M. Salerno

We construct families of discrete solitons (DSs) in an array of self-defocusing waveguides with an embedded $\mathcal{PT}$ (parity-time)-symmetric dimer, which is represented by a pair of waveguides carrying mutually balanced gain and loss.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-11 Zhiqiang Chen , Jiasheng Huang , Jinglei Chai , Xiangyu Zhang , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed

We present a brief overview of the basic concepts of the soliton stability theory and discuss some characteristic examples of the instability-induced soliton dynamics, in application to spatial optical solitons described by the NLS-type…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-04-23 Yuri S. Kivshar , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

We introduce a new species of gap solitons (GSs) supported by an azimuthally modulated guiding ring in defocusing cubic media. The periodicity in the azimuthal direction strongly modifies properties and existence domains of GSs. In addition…

I study vector solitons involving two incoherently-coupled field components in periodic PT-symmetric optical lattices. The specific symmetry of the lattice imposes the restrictions on the symmetry of available vector soliton states. While…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yaroslav V. Kartashov