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Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Luciano Medina

We study standing wave solutions to nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations, on a manifold with a rotational symmetry, which transform in a natural fashion under the group of rotations. We call these vortex solutions. They are higher…

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Optical vortices arise as phase singularities of the light fields and are of central interest in modern optical physics. In this paper, some existence theorems are established for stationary vortex wave solutions of a general class of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Yisong Yang , Ruifeng Zhang

We observe stable propagation of spatially localized single- and double-charge optical vortices in a self-focusing nonlinear medium. The vortices are created by self-trapping of partially incoherent light carrying a phase dislocation, and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Chien-Chung Jeng , Ming-Feng Shih , Kristian Motzek , Yuri Kivshar

We explore a prototypical two-dimensional model of the nonlinear Dirac type and examine its solitary wave and vortex solutions. In addition to identifying the stationary states, we provide a systematic spectral stability analysis,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-06-01 J. Cuevas-Maraver , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. Saxena , A. Comech , R. Lan

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

The form and stability properties of axisymmetric and spherically symmetric stationary states in two and three dimensions, respectively, are elucidated for Bose-Einstein condensates. These states include the ground state, central vortices,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 L. D. Carr , Charles W. Clark

We have investigated the nonlinear amplitude vector equation governing the evolution of optical pulses in optical and UV region. We are normalizing this equation for the cases of different and equal transverse and longitudinal size of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 L. M. Kovachev , L. M. Ivanov , D. Y. Dakova , L. I. Pavlov , K. L. Kovachev

A nonlinear wave equation that describes different nonlinear effects in various fields of research was considered. In two particular cases, this equation was reduced to the Sine-Gordon equation and the Born-Infeld equation. Using the slowly…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-07-07 G. T. Adamashvili

We develop a coarse-grained description of the point-vortex model, finding that a large number of planar vortices and antivortices behave as an inviscid non-Eulerian fluid at large scales. The emergent binary vortex fluid is subject to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-01 Xiaoquan Yu , Ashton S. Bradley

The article produces a brief review of some recent results which predict stable propagation of solitons and solitary vortices in models based on the nonlinear Schroedinger equation including fractional one- or two-dimensional diffraction…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-08-27 Boris A. Malomed

Vortex dynamics in superfluids is investigated in the framework of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. The natural motion of the vortex is of cyclotron type, whose frequency is found to be on the order of phonon velocity divided by the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Demircan , P. Ao , Q. Niu

In this paper, an existence theory is established for ring-profiled optical vortex solitons. We consider such solitons in the context of an electromagnetic light wave propagating in a self-focusing nonlinear media and governed by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-25 Luciano Medina

Vortices and axisymmetric vortex rings are considered in the framework of the subcritical nonlinear Schrodinger equations. The higher order nonlinearity present in such systems models many-body interactions in superfluid systems and allows…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Natalia G. Berloff

We study linear and nonlinear wave scattering by an optical vortex in a self-defocusing nonlinear Kerr medium. In the linear case, we find a splitting of a plane-wave front at the vortex proportional to its circulation, similar to what…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Dragomir Neshev , Alexander Nepomnyashchy , Yuri S. Kivshar

We suggest a novel type of composite spatial optical soliton created by a coherent vortex beam guiding a partially incoherent light beam in a self-focusing nonlinear medium. We show that the incoherence of the guided mode may enhance,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristian Motzek , Friedemann Kaiser , José R. Salgueiro , Yuri S. Kivshar , Cornelia Denz

Theories, simulations and experiments on vortex dynamics in quasi-two-dimensional magnetic materials are reviewed. These materials can be modelled by the classical two-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg model with XY (easy-plane) symmetry.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. G. Mertens , A. R. Bishop

It is well known that the two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with the cubic-quintic (CQ) nonlinearity supports a family of stable fundamental solitons, as well as solitary vortices (alias vortex rings), which are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-20 Nir Dror , Boris A. Malomed

Optical vortices are phase singularities nested in electromagnetic waves that constitute a fascinating source of phenomena in the physics of light and display deep similarities to their close relatives, quantized vortices in superfluids and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Anton S. Desyatnikov , Lluis Torner , Yuri S. Kivshar

We investigate the scattering of light by a nonlinear, anisotropic slab under conical incidence and arbitrary polarization, within the framework of Maxwell's equations, where the nonlinearities are described by nonlinear susceptibility…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-22 Jérémy Itier , Gilles Renversez , Frédéric Zolla