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We report,to the best of our knowledge, the first observation of concentrating paraxial beams of light in a linear nondispersive medium. We have generated this intriguing class of light beams, recently predicted by one of us, in both one-…

We report the propagation dynamics of Airy light beams under non-paraxial conditions. It is studied using the general approach which deals with Fourier expansion of the beam. We show the transformation of the beam from the Airy form as the…

Optics · Physics 2009-08-06 Denis Novitsky , Andrey Novitsky

Coupling light to ensembles of strongly interacting particles has emerged as a promising route toward achieving few photon nonlinearities. One specific way to implement this kind of nonlinearity is to interface light with highly excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Callum R. Murray , Thomas Pohl

Nonlinear optics has been a very dynamic field of research with spectacular phenomena discovered mainly after the invention of lasers. The combination of high intensity fields with resonant systems has further enhanced the nonlinearity with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Quentin Glorieux , Tangui Aladjidi , Paul D Lett , Robin Kaiser

An analysis of discrete systems is important for understanding of various physical processes, such as excitations in crystal lattices and molecular chains, the light propagation in waveguide arrays, and the dynamics of Bose-condensate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-08-06 E. N. Tsoy , B. A. Umarov

We formulate the the generalized Forchheimer equations for the three-dimensional fluid flows in rotating porous media. By implicitly solving the momentum in terms of the pressure's gradient, we derive a degenerate parabolic equation for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Emine Celik , Luan Hoang , Thinh Kieu

We employ quantum mechanical operator techniques to solve the equations of $(1+1)D$ and $(2+1)D$ for paraxial waves with initial conditions defined by Airy-type functions. In the first part, we find the expressions of $(1+1)D$ optical…

Non-Newtonian fluids encompass a large family of fluids with additional nonlinear material properties, contributing to non-trivial flow behaviour that cannot be captured through a single constant viscosity term. Common non-Newtonian…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Vedad Dzanic , Qiuxiang Huang , Christopher S. From , Emilie Sauret

The relativistic fluid is a highly successful model used to describe the dynamics of many-particle systems moving at high velocities and/or in strong gravity. It takes as input physics from microscopic scales and yields as output…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-07 N. Andersson , G. L. C. Comer

This is a new book of quantum Hierarchic theory of condensed matter, general for liquids and solids, developed by this author during 20 years and its numerous applications. Computer program, based on new theory, was used for simulations of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-06-06 Alex Kaivarainen

This work presents a comparative study of the best models available to describe granular fluids in order to investigate the extent to which it makes sense to speak about a liquid-gas transition in a system of particles that present no…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-02 O. Coquand

We study the existence of stable axially and spherically symmetric plasma structures on the basis of the new nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE) accounting for nonlocal electron nonlinearities. The numerical solutions of NLSE having the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Maxim Dvornikov

The explicit relations between the thermodynamic functions of the Lattice Gas model and the fluid within the framework of approach proposed earlier in [V. L. Kulinskii, J. Phys. Chem. B \textbf{114} 2852 (2010)] are derived. It is shown…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-04-26 Leonid A. Bulavin , Vladimir L. Kulinskii

The paper deals with the 2D gravity-capillary water waves equations in their Hamiltonian formulation, addressing the question of the nonlinear interaction of a plane wave with its reflection off a vertical wall. The main result is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Thomas Alazard , Pietro Baldi

We develop a relativistic variational model for a nematic liquid crystal interacting with an electro- magnetic field. The constitutive relation for a general anisotropic uniaxial diamagnetic and dielectric medium is analyzed. We discuss…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Yuri N. Obukhov , Tomas Ramos , Guillermo F. Rubilar

Microscopic understanding of liquid properties is essential for advancing a wide range of applications from energy applications such as nuclear reactors and batteries to biomedical applications including drug delivery and microfluidics.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jaeyun Moon

We investigate the dynamics of a cosmological dark matter fluid in the Schr\"odinger formulation, seeking to evaluate the approach as a potential tool for theorists. We find simple wave-mechanical solutions of the equations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-06 Rebecca Johnston , A. N. Lasenby , M. P. Hobson

We consider dispersive optical shock waves in nonlocal nonlinear media. Experiments are performed using spatial beams in a thermal liquid cell, and results agree with a hydrodynamic theory of propagation.

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Barsi , Wenjie Wan , Can Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

We introduce a versatile platform for studying nonlinear out-of-equilibrium physics. The platform is based on a slow light setup where an optical waveguide is interfaced with cold atoms to realize the driven nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Priyam Das , Changsuk Noh , Dimitris G. Angelakis

A semi-analytical computational algorithm to model the wavefield generated by paraxial diffraction of a class of Laguerre-Gauss beams by sharp-edge elliptic apertures is here developed. Thanks to such a powerful computational tool, some…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-05 Riccardo Borghi