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We address the existence and stability of two-dimensional solitons in optical or matter-wave media, which are supported by purely nonlinear lattices in the form of a periodic array of cylinders with self-focusing nonlinearity, embedded into…

We demonstrate a possibility of the creation of stable optical solitons combining one continuous and one discrete coordinate, with embedded vorticity, in an array of planar waveguides with intrinsic cubic-quintic nonlinearity. The same…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-02-02 Xiaoxi Xu , Guanghao Ou , Zhaopin Chen , Bin Liu , Weicheng Chen , Boris A. Malomed , Yongyao Li

It has been recently discovered that stabilization of two-dimensional (2D) solitons against the critical collapse in media with the cubic nonlinearity by means of nonlinear lattices (NLs) is a challenging problem. We address the 1D version…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-03 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

We predict new generic types of vorticity-carrying soliton complexes in a class of physical systems including an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in a square optical lattice (OL) and photonic lattices in photorefractive media. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris Malomed

We report results of the analysis for families of one-dimensional (1D) trapped solitons, created by competing self-focusing (SF) quintic and self-defocusing (SDF) cubic nonlinear terms. Two trapping potentials are considered, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-25 Krzysztof B. Zegadlo , Tomasz Wasak , Boris A. Malomed , Miroslaw A. Karpierz , Marek Trippenbach

We analyze a system of three two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations coupled by linear terms and with the cubic-quintic (focusing-defocusing) nonlinearity. We consider two versions of the model: conservative and parity-time…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-14 David Feijoo , Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

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 observe experimentally higher-order solitons in waveguide arrays with defocusing saturable nonlinearity. Such solitons can comprise several in-phase bright spots and are stable above a critical power threshold. We elucidate the impact of…

We prove asymptotic stability of trapped solitons in the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a potential in dimension 1 and for even potential and even initial conditions.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Zhou Gang , I. M. Sigal

We demonstrate that rotating quasi-one-dimensional potentials, periodic or parabolic, support solitons in settings where they are otherwise impossible. Ground-state and vortex solitons are found in defocusing media, if the rotation…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Boris A. Malomed , Lluis Torner

We demonstrate that the cubic gain applied in a localized region, which is embedded into a bulk waveguide with the cubic-quintic nonlinearity and uniform linear losses, supports stable spatial solitons in the absence of the quintic…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Olga V. Borovkova , Valery E. Lobanov , Boris A. Malomed

The existence of stable solitons in two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) media governed by the self-focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a periodic potential is demonstrated by means of the variational approximation (VA)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 B. B. Baizakov , B. A. Malomed , M. Salerno

We construct families of one-dimensional (1D) stable solitons in two-component $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quintic nonlinearity, which plays the critical role in 1D setups. The system models light…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Gennadiy Burlak , Zhaopin Chen , Boris A. Malomed

We address the stability of multipole-mode solitons in nonlocal Kerr-type nonlinear media. Such solitons comprise several out-of-phase peaks packed together by the forces acting between them. We discover that dipole-, triple-, and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhiyong Xu , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lluis Torner

In the present paper we consider an optical system with a $\chi^{(2)}$-type nonlinearity and unspecified $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potential functions. Considering this as an inverse problem and positing a family of exact solutions in terms…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-06 Y. N. Truong Vu , J. D'Ambroise , P. G. Kevrekidis , F. Kh. Abdullaev

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

We report solutions for stable compound solitons in a three-dimensional quasi-phase-matched photonic crystal with the quadratic ($\chi ^{(2)}$) nonlinearity. The photonic crystal is introduced with a checkerboard structure, which can be…

We address the properties and dynamical stability of one-dimensional vector lattice solitons in Kerr-type cubic medium with harmonic transverse modulation of refractive index. We discovered that unstable families of scalar lattice solitons…

We report results of systematic numerical studies of 2D matter-wave soliton families supported by an external potential, in a vicinity of the junction between stable and unstable branches of the families, where the norm of the solution…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-05-15 Gennadiy Burlak , Boris A. Malomed

We demonstrate the existence of stable three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons (STSs) in media with a nonlocal cubic nonlinearity. Fundamental (nonspinning) STSs forming one-parameter families are stable if their propagation constant…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Mihalache , D. Mazilu , F. Lederer , B. A. Malomed , Y. V. Kartashov , L. -C. Crasovan , L. Torner