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It is shown that the pair plasmas with small temperature asymmetry can support existence of localized as well as de-localized optical vortex solitons. Coexistence of such solitons is possible due to peculiar form of saturating nonlinearity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 V. I. Berezhiani , S. M. Mahajan , N. L. Shatashvili

Stable vortex solitons (VSs) are objects of great interest for fundamental studies and various applications, including particle trapping, microscopy, data encoding, and matter-wave gyroscopes. However, three-dimensional (3D) VSs with high…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-26 Yanchao Zhang , Chao Hang , Boris A. Malomed , Guoxiang Huang

By means of the variational method and numerical simulations, we demonstrate the existence of stable 3D nonlinear modes, viz. vortex ``bullets'', in the form of pulsed beams carrying orbital angular momentum, that can self-trap in a 2D…

We consider a one-dimensional model of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of periodic external potentials of opposite signs, acting on the two species. The interaction between the species is attractive, while…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Shi , K. J. H. Law P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed

We show that attractive two-dimensional spinor Bose-Einstein condensates with helicoidal spatially periodic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) support a rich variety of stable fundamental solitons and bound soliton complexes. Such states exist with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-09 Ya. V. Kartashov , E. Ya. Sherman , B. A. Malomed , V. V. Konotop

We demonstrate that families of vortex solitons are possible in a bi-dispersive three-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation. These solutions can be considered as extensions of two-dimensional dark vortex solitons which, along the third…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikolaos K. Efremidis , Kyriakos Hizanidis , Boris A. Malomed , Paolo Di Trapani

We study fundamental and vortical solitons in disk-morphed Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) subject to strong confinement along the axial direction. Starting from the three-dimensional (3D) Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE), we proceed to an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Luca Salasnich , Boris A. Malomed

Stable embedded solitons are discovered in the generalized third-order nonlinear Schroedinger equation. When this equation can be reduced to a perturbed complex modified KdV equation, we developed a soliton perturbation theory which shows…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Yang

The dynamics of two-component solitons is studied, analytically and numerically, in the framework of a system of coupled extended nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, which incorporate the cross-phase modulation,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-19 E. M. Gromov , B. A. Malomed , V. V. Tyutin

Fundamental and vortex solitons in a two-dimensional optically induced waveguide array are reported. In the strong localization regime, the fundamental soliton is largely confined to one lattice site, while the vortex state comprises of…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jianke Yang , Ziad Musslimani

We present exact numerical solutions in the form of spatially localized three-dimensional (3D) nonrotating and rotating (azimuthon) multipole solitons in the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined by a parabolic trap. We numerically show…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 V. M. Lashkin

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…

Stability is an essential problem in theoretical and experimental studies of solitons in nonlinear media with fractional diffraction, which is represented by the Riesz derivative with Levy index (LI) taking values LI < 2. Fractional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-02-26 Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo , Boris A. Malomed

We revisit the topic of the existence and azimuthal modulational stability of solitary vortices (alias vortex solitons) in the two-dimensional (2D) cubic-quintic nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation. We develop a semi-analytical approach,…

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

We study a class of physically intriguing PT-symmetric generalized Scarf-II (GS-II) potentials, which can support exact solitons in one- and multi-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. In the 1D and multi-D settings, we find that a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-10-02 Yong Chen , Zhenya Yan , Boris A. Malomed

We introduce multi-soliton sets in the two-dimensional medium with the second-harmonic-generating nonlinearity subject to spatial modulation in the form of a triangle of singular peaks. Various families of symmetric and asymmetric sets are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-11-14 Vitaly Lutsky , Boris A. Malomed

In this letter we introduce the concept of stabilized vector solitons as nonlinear waves constructed by addition of mutually incoherent Townes solitons that are stabilized under the effect of a periodic modulation of the nonlinearity. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gaspar D. Montesinos , Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Humberto Michinel

It was recently found that the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction to the mean-field Hamiltonian suppresses the collapse and creates stable localized modes (two-component "quantum droplets", QDs) in two and three dimensions. We construct…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-12-12 Yongyao Li , Zhaopin Chen , Zhihuan Luo , Chunqing Huang , Haishu Tan , Wei Pang , Boris A. Malomed

We elaborate a mechanism for the formation of stable solitons of the semi-vortex type (with vorticities 0 and 1 in their two components), populating a finite bandgap in the spectrum of the spin-orbit-coupled binary Bose-Einstein condensate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 H. Sakaguchi , B. A. Malomed

A briefly formulated update of the recently published review [1] on the topic of multidimensional solitons (chiefly, in nonlinear optics and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs)) is presented. The update briefly summarizes some notable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-04 Boris A. Malomed