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We study vortex polygons and their stabilities in miscible two-component Bose-Einstein condensates, and find that vortex polygons are stable for the total circulation $Q \leq 5$, metastable for $Q = 6$, and unstable for $Q \geq 7$. As a…

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The focusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in two dimensions admits vortex solitons, standing wave solutions with spatial structure, Qm(r,theta) = e^{i m theta} Rm(r). In the case of spin m = 1, we prove there exists a class of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Gideon Simpson , Ian Zwiers

In this paper, we consider the following nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation \begin{align*} \partial_{tt}u-\Delta u+u=|u|^{p-1}u,\qquad t\in \mathbb{R},\ x\in \mathbb{R}^d, \end{align*} with $1<p< 1+\frac{4}{d}$. The equation has the standing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Yifei Wu

We study the strong instability of standing waves $e^{i\omega t}\phi_\omega(x)$ for nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with an $L^2$-supercritical nonlinearity and an attractive inverse power potential, where $\omega\in\mathbb{R}$ is a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Noriyoshi Fukaya , Masahito Ohta

In this paper, we consider the dynamical evolution of dark vortex states in the two-dimensional defocusing discrete nonlinear Schroedinger model, a model of interest both to atomic physics and to nonlinear optics. We find that in a way…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-07-06 J. Cuevas , G. James , P. G. Kevrekidis , K. J. H. Law

The stability of an abelian (Nielsen-Olesen) vortex embedded in the electroweak theory against W production is investigated in a gauge defined by the condition of a single-component Higgs field. The model is characterized by the parameters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Samuel W. MacDowell , Ola Törnkvist

We reveal that spatially localized vortex solitons become stable in self-focusing nonlinear media when the vortex symmetry-breaking azimuthal instability is eliminated by a nonlocal nonlinear response. We study the main properties of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Yakimenko , Yuri Zaliznyak , Yuri Kivshar

We predict new generic types of vorticity-carrying soliton complexes in a class of physical systems including an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in a square optical lattice (OL) and photonic lattices in photorefractive media. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi , Boris Malomed

We present a numerical solution in the form of a three-dimensional (3D) vortex soliton in unmagnetized plasma in the model of the generalized Zakharov equations with saturating exponential nonlinearity. To find the solution with a high…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-04-08 Volodymyr M. Lashkin

We consider vortices in the nonlocal two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation with the interaction potential having the Lorentz-shaped dependence on the relative momentum. It is shown that in the Fourier series expansion with respect to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Valery S Shchesnovich , Roberto A Kraenkel

In a recent one-dimensional numerical fluid simulation study [Saxena et al., Phys. Plasmas 13,032309 (2006)], it was found that an instability is associated with a special class of one-dimensional nonlinear solutions for modulated light…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Vikrant Saxena , Amita Das , Sudip Sengupta , Predhiman Kaw , Abhijit Sen

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 investigate the triangular instability of a Batchelor vortex subjected to a stationary triangular strain field generated by three satellite vortices, in the presence of weak axial flow. The analysis combines theoretical predictions with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-10 A. S. P. Ayapilla , Y. Hattori , S. Le Dizès

We carry out a detailed stability analysis of the superconducting vortex solutions in the Weinberg-Salam theory described in Nucl.Phys. B826 (2010) 174. These vortices are characterized by constant electric current $I$ and electric charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Julien Garaud , Mikhail S. Volkov

On the Sun, the inertial mode with the largest observed amplitude (rms velocity exceeding $10$ m/s) is the high-latitude mode with longitudinal wavenumber $m=1$. In two dimensions, on the sphere, linear theory predicts that this mode is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-10 Muneeb Mushtaq , Damien Fournier , Rama Ayoub , Peter J. Schmid , Laurent Gizon

The structure and stability of various vortices in F=1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensates are investigated by solving the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation under rotation. We perform an extensive search for stable vortices, considering both…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Mizushima , K. Machida , T. Kita

We study the propagation and stability of electromagnetic vortex beams in relativistically de generate plasmas. We show that such plasmas support localized vortex solitons carrying orbital angular momentum and analyze their linear and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Nikolai Maltsev , Vazha I. Berezhiani

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 modulational stability and instability in the Whitham equation, combining the dispersion relation of water waves and a nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, and modified to permit the effects of surface tension and constant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-28 Vera Mikyoung Hur , Mathew A. Johnson

Stable ring vortex solitons, featuring a bright-shape, appear to be very rare in nature. However, here we show that they exist and can be made dynamically stable in defocusing cubic nonlinear media with an imprinted Bessel optical lattice.…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner