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When a disordered array of coupled waveguides is illuminated with an extended coherent optical field, discrete speckle develops: partially coherent light with a granular intensity distribution on the lattice sites. The same paradigm applies…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-11 H. Esat Kondakci , Ayman F. Abouraddy , Bahaa E. A. Saleh

Stochastic resonance shows that under some circumstances noise can enhance the response of a system to a periodic force. While this effect has been extensively investigated theoretically and demonstrated experimentally in classical systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. F. Huelga , M. B. Plenio

We reveal that spatially localized vortex solitons become stable in self-focusing nonlinear media when the vortex symmetry-breaking azimuthal instability is eliminated by a nonlocal nonlinear response. We study the main properties of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Yakimenko , Yuri Zaliznyak , Yuri Kivshar

Anderson localization is a universal interference phenomenon occurring when a wave evolves through a random medium and it has been observed in a great variety of physical systems, either quantum or classical. The recently developed…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-11-30 David Colas , Cédric Bellis , Bruno Lombard , Régis Cottereau

We introduce spatiotemporal spinning solitons (vortex tori) of the three-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation with focusing cubic and defocusing quintic nonlinearities. The first ever found completely stable spatiotemporal vortex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Mihalache , D. Mazilu , L. -C. Crasovan , I. Towers , A. V. Buryak , B. A. Malomed , L. Torner , J. P. Torres , F. Lederer

We introduce a general model which augments the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation by nonlinear-diffraction terms competing with the linear diffraction. The new terms contain two irreducible parameters and admit a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Shen , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker , Boris A. Malomed

This paper describes a sound source localization (SSL) technique that combines an $\alpha$-stable model for the observed signal with a neural network-based approach for modeling steering vectors. Specifically, a physics-informed neural…

We report families of discrete optical solitons in frequency space, or spectral-discrete solitons existing in a dispersive Raman medium, where individual side-bands are coupled by coherence. The associated time-domain patterns correspond to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. V. Gorbach , D. V. Skryabin

We show experimentally and numerically the existence of stable spatial solitons in an optically pumped semiconductor microresonator. We demonstrate that the pump substantially reduces the light intensity necessary to sustain the solitons…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 V. B. Taranenko , C. O. Weiss

We study continuous Anderson Hamiltonians with non-degenerate single site probability distribution of bounded support, without any regularity condition on the single site probability distribution. We prove the existence of a strong form of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 François Germinet , Abel Klein

Solitons, as coherent structures that maintain their shape while traveling at constant velocity, are ubiquitous across various branches of physics, from fluid dynamics to quantum fields. However, it is within the realm of optics where…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-21 Dmitry Kazakov , Federico Capasso , Marco Piccardo

We study wave transmission through one-dimensional random nonlinear structures and predict a novel effect resulting from an interplay of nonlinearity and disorder. We reveal that, while weak nonlinearity does not change the typical…

A model of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring optical lattice with atomic dissipations applied at a stationary or at a moving location on the ring is presented. The localized dissipation is shown to generate and stabilize both stationary…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 Russell Campbell , Gian-Luca Oppo

Precision is a virtue throughout science in general and in optics in particular where carefully fabricated nanometer-scale devices hold great promise for both classical and quantum photonics [1-6]. In such nanostructures, unavoidable…

A method is provided for approximating random slow manifolds of a class of slow-fast stochastic dynamical systems. Thus approximate, low dimensional, reduced slow systems are obtained analytically in the case of sufficiently large time…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-03-12 Jian Ren , Jinqiao Duan , Christopher K. R. T. Jones

We report a theoretical study of Anderson localization of nonclassical light with emphasis on the quantum statistical aspects of localized light. We demonstrate, from the variance in mean intensity of localized light, as well as…

Optics · Physics 2010-04-22 Clinton Thompson , Gautam Vemuri , G. S. Agarwal

In the framework of non-Hermitian photonics, we investigate the interplay between disorder and non-Hermiticity in a one-dimensional Hatano-Nelson lattice. While Anderson localization dictates the wave's evolution in conservative random…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-05-20 E. T. Kokkinakis , K. G. Makris , E. N. Economou

Stochastic realization of the wave function in quantum mechanics, with the inclusion of soliton representation of extended particles, is discussed. The concept of Stochastic Qubits is used for quantum computing modeling.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-23 Yu. P. Rybakov , T. F. Kamalov

A technically convenient signature of Anderson localization is exponential decay of the fractional moments of the Green function within appropriate energy ranges. We consider a random Hamiltonian on a lattice whose randomness is generated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander Elgart , Martin Tautenhahn , Ivan Veselic'

By employing Random Matrix Theory (RMT) and first-principle calculations, we investigated the behavior of Anderson localization in 1D, 2D and 3D systems characterized by a varying disorder. In particular, we considered random binary layer…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-23 D. Molinari , A. Fratalocchi