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We consider two-component solitons in a medium with a periodic modulation of the nonlinear coefficient. The modulation enables the existence of complex multihump vector states. In particular, vector solitons composed of dipole and…

Two-dimensional (2D) vector matter waves in the form of soliton-vortex and vortex-vortex pairs are investigated for the case of attractive intracomponent interaction in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. Both attractive and repulsive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 A. I. Yakimenko , Yu. A. Zaliznyak , V. M. Lashkin

We develop the scheme of dispersion management (DM) for three-dimensional (3D) solitons in a multimode optical fiber. It is modeled by the parabolic confining potential acting in the transverse plane in combination with the cubic…

We study spatial optical solitons in a one-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal created by an array of thin-film nonlinear waveguides, the so-called Dirac-comb nonlinear lattice. We analyze modulational instability of the extended…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrey A. Sukhorukov , Yuri S. Kivshar

We systematically investigate the existence, stability, and propagation dynamics of multipole-mode (necklace-shaped) solitons in the two-dimensional model of an optical medium with the defocusing saturable nonlinearity and an annular…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiaoli Lang , Boris A. Malomed , Liangwei Dong

Vector solitons are a type of solitary, or non-spreading wavepacket occurring in a nonlinear medium comprised of multiple components. As such, a variety of synthetic systems can be constructed to explore their properties, from nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-22 Xiao Chai , Di Lao , Kazuya Fujimoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Masahito Ueda , Chandra Raman

We demonstrate that two-dimensional two-component bright solitons of an annular shape, carrying vorticities $(m,\pm m)$ in the components, may be stable in media with the cubic-quintic nonlinearity, including the \textit{hidden-vorticity}…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. S. Desyatnikov , D. Mihalache , D. Mazilu , B. A. Malomed , C. Denz , F. Lederer

The existence and stability of fundamental, dipole, and tripole solitons in Kerr nonlinear media with parity-time symmetric Gaussian complex potentials are reported. Fundamental solitons are stable not only in deep potentials but also in…

Optics · Physics 2011-10-14 Sumei Hu , Xuekai Ma , Daquan Lu , Zhenjun Yang , Yizhou Zheng , Wei Hu

We show that surface solitons in the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with truncated complex periodic potential can be stabilized by linear homogeneous losses, which are necessary to balance gain in the near-surface channel…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-13 Yingji He , Dumitru Mihalache , Xing Zhu , Lina Guo , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We derive the nonlinear equations governing the dynamics of three-dimensional (3D) disturbances in a nonuniform rotating self-gravitating fluid under the assumption that the characteristic frequencies of disturbances are small compared to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-02-15 Volodymyr M. Lashkin , Oleg K. Cheremnykh , Zahida Ehsan , Nazia Batool

We introduce 2D and 1D models of a binary Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodic potential, with repulsive interactions. We chiefly consider the most fundamental case of the inter-species repulsion with zero intra-species interactions.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Gubeskys , B. A. Malomed , I. M. Merhasin

We perform accurate investigation of stability of localized vortices in an effectively two-dimensional ("pancake-shaped") trapped BEC with negative scattering length. The analysis combines computation of the stability eigenvalues and direct…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Dumitru Mihalache , Dumitru Mazilu , Boris A. Malomed , Falk Lederer

Using the numerical solution of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation and a variational method it is shown that (3+1)-dimensional spatiotemporal optical solitons, known as light bullets, can be stabilized in a layered Kerr medium with…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Sadhan K. Adhikari

In this work, we introduce a method for stabilizing spatiotemporal solitons. These solitons correspond to light bullets in multimode optical fiber lasers, energy-scalable waveguide oscillators and amplifiers, localized coherent patterns in…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-12 Vladimir L. Kalashnikov , Stefan Wabnitz

We study two-component spatial optical solitons carrying an angular momentum and propagating in a self-focusing saturable nonlinear medium. When one of the components is small, such vector solitons can be viewed as a self-trapped vortex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jose R. Salgueiro , Yuri S. Kivshar

We report families of two-dimensional (2D) composite solitons in spinor dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates, with two localized components linearly mixed by the spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and the intrinsic nonlinearity represented by the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-02-24 Xunda Jiang , Zhiwei Fan , Zhaopin Chen , Wei Pang , Yongyao Li , Boris A. Malomed

Dynamical and self-trapping properties of two-dimensional (2D) binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in cross-combined lattices consisting of a one-dimensional (1D) linear optical lattice (LOL) in the $x-$ direction for the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-11-02 K. K. Ismailov , G. A. Sekh , Mario Salerno

Two-dimensional (2D) fundamental soliton-soliton pairs are investigated in binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interactions between atoms of the same type. Both attractive and repulsive interactions between atoms of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-03-16 A. I. Yakimenko , K. O. Shchebetovska , S. I. Vilchinskii , M. Weyrauch

Motivated by recent proposals of ``collisionally inhomogeneous'' Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), which have a spatially modulated scattering length, we study the existence and stability properties of bright and dark matter-wave solitons…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Rodrigues , P. G. Kevrekidis , Mason A. Porter , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. Schmelcher , A. R. Bishop

We derive a system of nonpolynomial Schroedinger equations (NPSEs) for one-dimensional wave functions of two components in a binary self-attractive Bose-Einstein condensate loaded in a cigar-shaped trap. The system is obtained by means of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Salasnich , Boris A. Malomed