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The response of superfluids to the external rotation, evidenced by emergence of quantised vortices, distinguishes them from conventional fluids. In this work, we demonstrate that the number of vortices in a stirred polariton condensate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Ivan Gnusov , Stella Harrison , Sergey Alyatkin , Kirill Sitnik , Helgi Sigurdsson , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

We study two-dimensional fundamental and vortex solitons in polariton condensates with spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting evolving in square arrays of microcavity pillars. Due to repulsive excitonic nonlinearity such states are…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-23 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Dmitry V. Skryabin

Spontaneous symmetry breaking plays a pivotal role in many areas of physics, engendering a variety of excitations from sound modes in solids to pions in nuclear physics. Equally important excitations are solitons, nonlinear configurations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-13 Eslam Khalaf , Shubhayu Chatterjee , Nick Bultinck , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath

Skyrmions are topological structures defined by a winding vector configuration that yields a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions manifest as stable, mobile spin textures, positioning them at the forefront of…

We study modulational instability in nonlinear arrays of subwavelength metallic nanoparticles, and analyze numerically nonlinear scenarios of the instability development. We demonstrate that modulational instability can lead to the…

Optics · Physics 2012-06-01 Roman E. Noskov , Pavel A. Belov , Yuri S. Kivshar

A method for approximating dark soliton solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation under the influence of perturbations is presented. The problem is broken into an inner region, where core of the soliton resides, and an outer region,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Mark J. Ablowitz , Sean D. Nixon , Theodoros P. Horikis , Dimitri J. Frantzeskakis

By considering the bulk-edge correspondence of the skyrmion crystal this work focused on the relation of the topological properties to the polarity ($Q_{\rm{sk}}$), next-nearest-neighbor hopping ($t'$), and exchange coupling ($J$). We found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Jianhua Gong , Rui Zhu

Magnetic skyrmions are topological magnetic spin structures exhibiting particle-like behaviour. They are of strong interest from a fundamental viewpoint and for application, where they have potential to act as information carriers in future…

In nonparaxial, monochromatic light the electric and magnetic fields generally have different energy densities, different singularities and different polarisation structures. A topological picture of the electric field or magnetic field in…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-23 Alex J. Vernon

It is shown that the electric charge of vortices can result in a helical instability of straight vortex lines in layered superconductors, particularly Bi-based cuprates or organic superconductors. This instability may result in a phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Gurevich

The competition between external drives and interparticle interactions are important for the static and dynamic properties of topological quasiparticles in confined geometries. Here, we study the dynamics of particlelike skyrmions under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Xichao Zhang , Jing Xia , Xiaoxi Liu

A large enough piece of ferromagnet is usually not magnetized uniformly, but develops a magnetization texture. In thin films these textures can be doubly-periodic. Such are the well known magnetic bubble domains and the recently observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-28 Andrei B. Bogatyrëv , Konstantin L. Metlov

Analogies between non-trivial topologies of matter and light have inspired numerous studies, including defect formation in structured light and topological photonic band-structures. Three-dimensional topological objects of localized…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-15 C. D. Parmee , M. R. Dennis , J. Ruostekoski

The paper addresses the bistability caused by spontaneous symmetry breaking bifurcation in a one-dimensional periodically corrugated nonlinear waveguide pumped by coherent light at normal incidence. The formation and the stability of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-12 D. Dolinina , A. Yulin

Topological transitions are fundamental phenomena in electronics, photonics, and quantum technologies. However, the scalability and tunability of Topological transitions in these systems have still been constrained by their material…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-18 Bo Tian , Xi Zhang , Ruitao Wu , Yuquan Zhang , Luping Du , Xiaocong Yuan

We report and classify the rich variety of patterns forming spontaneously in the oxide layer during the oscillatory photoelectrodissolution of n-type doped silicon electrodes under limited illumination. Remarkably, these patterns are often…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-06-16 Konrad Schoenleber , Carla Zensen , Andreas Heinrich , Katharina Krischer

The degradation of classical and quantum structured light induced by complex media constitutes a critical barrier to its practical implementation in a range of applications, from communication and energy transport to imaging and sensing.…

The origin of the transition from asymptotically reversible to asymptotically irreversible response in amorphous solids subject to oscillatory shear is still unknown. It is known that the plastic events that result from shearing always…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-24 Asaf Szulc , Ido Regev

Topological materials exhibit properties dictated by quantised invariants that make them robust against perturbations. This topological protection is a universal wave phenomenon that applies not only in the context of electrons in…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-26 Sebabrata Mukherjee , Mikael C. Rechtsman

We predict that a photonic crystal fiber whose strands are filled with a defocusing nonlinear medium can support stable bright and also vortex solitons if the strength of the defocusing nonlinearity grows toward the periphery of the fiber.…

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