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It has been recently demonstrated that self-defocusing (SDF) media with the cubic nonlinearity, whose local coefficient grows from the center to periphery fast enough, support stable bright solitons, without the use of any linear potential.…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

Recent studies have demonstrated that defocusing cubic nonlinearity with local strength growing from the center to the periphery faster than $r^{D}$, in space of dimension $D$ with radial coordinate $r$, supports a vast variety of robust…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-26 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

We discover the existence of vortex solitons supported by the surface between two optical lattices imprinted in Kerr-type nonlinear media. Such solitons can feature strongly noncanonical profiles, and we found that their properties are…

We present numerical results for three-dimensional (3D) solitons with symmetries of the semi-vortex (SV) and mixed-mode (MM) types, which can be created in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates of Rydberg atoms under the action of the spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-02 Yuan Zhao , Heng-Jie Hu , Qian-Qian Zhou , Zhang-Cai Qiu , Li Xue , Si-Liu Xu , Qin Zhou , Boris A. Malomed

We have created spatial dark solitons in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in which the soliton exists in one of the condensate components and the soliton nodal plane is filled with the second component. The filled solitons are stable…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 B. P. Anderson , P. C. Haljan , C. A. Regal , D. L. Feder , L. A. Collins , C. W. Clark , E. A. Cornell

Solitons, nonlinear particle-like excitations with inalterable properties (amplitude, shape, and velocity) as they propagate, are omnipresent in many branches of science---and in physics in particular. Flat-top solitons are a novel type of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-09-24 Liangwei Zeng , Jianhua Zeng

Dipole and quadrupole solitons in a two-dimensional optically induced defocus- ing photonic lattice are theoretically predicted and experimentally observed. It is shown that in-phase nearest-neighbor dipole and out-of-phase…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Susanto , K. Law , P. G. Kevrekidis , L. Tang , C. Lou , X. Wang , Z. Chen

Critical behavior of solitonic waveforms of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices (OL) has been studied in the framework of continuous mean-field equation. In 2D and 3D OLs bright matter-wave solitons undergo abrupt delocalization…

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

We investigate the existence and especially the linear stability of single and multiple-charge quantized vortex states of nonlinear Schroedinger equations in the presence of a periodic and a parabolic potential in two spatial dimensions.…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2009-11-13 K. J. H. Law , L. Qiao , P. G. Kevrekidis , I. G. Kevrekidis

Models of two-dimensional (2D) traps, with the double-well structure in the third direction, for Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) are introduced, with attractive or repulsive interactions between atoms. The models are based on systems of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Arthur Gubeskys , Boris A. Malomed

Solitons are non-dispersive wave solutions that arise in a diverse range of nonlinear systems, stablised by a focussing or defocussing nonlinearity. First observed in shallow water, solitons have subsequently been studied in many other…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. L. Marchant , T. P. Billam , T. P. Wiles , M. M. H. Yu , S. A. Gardiner , S. L. Cornish

We demonstrate a possibility to generate localized states in effectively one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates with a negative scattering length in the form of a dark soliton in the presence of an optical lattice (OL) and/or a parabolic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , Boris A. Malomed , A. R. Bishop , I. G. Kevrekidis

In this work, we employ the $SO(2)$-rotations of a two-component, one-, two- and three-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger system at and near the Manakov limit, to construct vector solitons and vortex structures. This way, stable…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-20 E. G. Charalampidis , Wenlong Wang , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , J. Cuevas-Maraver

We predict solitary vortices in quasi-planar condensates of dipolar atoms, polarized parallel to the confinement direction, with the effective sign of the dipole-dipole interaction inverted by means of a rapidly rotating field. Energy…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Tikhonenkov , B. A. Malomed , A. Vardi

We predict the existence and address the stability of two-dimensional surface solitons featuring topologically complex shapes, including dipoles, vortices, and bound states of vortex solitons, at the interface of nonlocal thermal media.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Fangwei Ye , Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Lluis Torner

We introduce a system of propagation equations for the fundamental-frequency (FF) and second-harmonic (SH) waves in the bulk waveguide with the effective fractional diffraction and quadratic (chi ^(2)) nonlinearity. The numerical solution…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-06-03 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris A. Malomed

We introduce the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii/nonlinear-Schrodinger (GP/NLS) equation with the self-focusing nonlinearity confined to two identical circles, separated or overlapped. The model can be realized in terms of Bose-Einstein…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-28 Thawatchai Mayteevarunyoo , Boris A. Malomed , Athikom Reoksabutr

We report the first prediction of fully localized two-dimensional embedded solitons. These solitons are obtained in a quasi-one-dimensional waveguide array which is periodic along one spatial direction and localized along the orthogonal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 Jianke Yang

We propose a scheme for the creation of stable three dimensional bright solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates, i.e., the matter-wave analog of so-called spatio-temporal "light bullets". Off-resonant dressing to Rydberg $nD$-states is shown…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 F. Maucher , N. Henkel , M. Saffman , W. Królikowski , S. Skupin , T. Pohl

We consider the impact of anisotropic nonlocality on the arrest of the collapse and stabilization of dipole-mode (DM) solitons in two-dimensional (2D) models of optical media with the diffusive nonlinearity. The nonlocal nonlinearity is…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 Fangwei Ye , Boris A. Malomed , Yingji He , Bambi Hu