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We examine the momentum, spin, and orbital angular momentum of structured monochromatic optical fields in dispersive inhomogeneous isotropic media. There are two bifurcations in this general problem: the Abraham-Minkowski dilemma and the…

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Spin superfluidity, i.e., coherent spin transport mediated by topologically stable textures, is limited by parasitic anisotropies rooted in relativistic interactions and spatial inhomogeneities. Since structural disorder in amorphous…

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The quantum spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a two dimensional triangular lattice geometry with spatial anisotropy is relevant to describe materials like ${\rm Cs_2 Cu Cl_4}$ and organic compounds like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-09 Seiji Yunoki , Sandro Sorella

This paper is motivated by a gauged Schr\"{o}dinger equation in dimension 2. We are concerned with radial stationary states under the presence of a vortex at the origin. Those states solve a nonlinear nonlocal PDE with a variational…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-25 Yongsheng Jiang , Alessio Pomponio , David Ruiz

We demonstrate a new class of elastic waves in the bulk: When longitudinal and transverse components propagate at the same speed, rolling waves with a spin that is not parallel to the wave vector can emerge. First, we give a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-29 Peng Zhang , Christian Kern , Sijie Sun , David A. Weitz , Pai Wang

Vortices are a hallmark of topologically nontrivial dynamics in nonlinear physics and arise in a huge variety of systems, from space and atmosphere to condensed matter and quantum gases. In optics, vortices manifest as phase twists of the…

We investigate the linear propagation of a paraxial optical beam in anisotropic media. We start from the eigenmode solution of the plane wave in the media, then subsequently derive the wave equation for the beam propagating along a general…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Zhixiao Chen , Qi Guo

Vortices are ubiquitous in nature and can be observed in fluids, condensed matter, and even in the formation of galaxies. Light, too, can evolve like a vortex. Optical vortices are exploited in light-matter interaction, free-space…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-26 Ahmed H. Dorrah , Alfonso Palmieri , Lisa Li , Federico Capasso

Irrotational ow of a spherical thin liquid layer surrounding a rigid core is described using the defocusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Accordingly, azimuthal moving nonlinear waves are modeled by periodic dark solitons expressed by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-08-04 A. S. Carstea , A. Ludu

The dynamics of models described by a one-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is studied. The nonlinearity in these models appears due to the coupling of the electronic motion to optical oscillators which are treated in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. K. Datta , K. Kundu

We examine spin vortices in ferromagnetic quantum Heisenberg models with planar anisotropy on two-dimensional lattices. The symmetry properties and the time evolution of vortices built up from spin-coherent states are studied in detail.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 John Schliemann , Franz G. Mertens

We construct a variety of novel localized states with distinct topological structures in the 3D discrete nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger equation. The states can be created in Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in strong optical lattices, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , D. J. Frantzeskakis

1) A wave equation is derived from the kinetic equations governing media with rotational as well as translational degrees of freedom. In this wave the fluctuating quantity is a vector, the bulk spin. The transmission is similar to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Lukas Saul

The paper investigates dynamics of nonsingular vortices in a ferromagnetic spin-1 BEC, where spin and mass superfluidity coexist in the presence of uniaxial anisotropy (linear and quadratic Zeeman effect). The analysis is based on…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-08-07 E. B. Sonin

The most general form for symmetric modes of nonlinear discrete-symmetry systems with nonlinearity depending on the modulus of the field is presented. Vortex solutions are demonstrated to behave as Bloch modes characterized by an angular…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Albert Ferrando

We consider the dynamics of a two-dimensional incompressible perfect fluid on a M\"obius strip embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$. The vorticity-streamfunction formulation of the Euler equations is derived from an exterior-calculus form of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-22 Jacques Vanneste

In the present work, we consider the self-focusing discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation on hexagonal and honeycomb lattice geometries. Our emphasis is on the study of the effects of anisotropy, motivated by the tunability afforded in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-02-17 Q. E. Hoq , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. R. Bishop

We explore spin-1/2 triangular antiferromagnets with both easy-plane and lattice exchange anisotropies by employing a dual vortex mapping followed by a fermionization of the vortices. Over a broad range of exchange anisotropy, this approach…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Jason Alicea , Olexei I. Motrunich , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The interaction of a spin wave with a stationary Bloch point is studied. The topological non-trivial structure of the Bloch point manifests in the propagation of spin waves endowing them with a gauge potential that resembles the one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos , Ricardo Gabriel Elías , Alvaro S. Núñez

Owing to the non-differentiable nature of the theory of Scale Relativity, the emergence of complex wave functions, then of spinors and bi-spinors occurs naturally in its framework. The wave function is here a manifestation of the velocity…

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