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We overview the properties of nonlinear guided waves and (bright and dark) spatial optical solitons in a periodic medium created by a sequence of linear and nonlinear layers. First, we consider a single layer with a cubic nonlinear response…

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We present a collective coordinate approximation to model the dynamics of two interacting nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) solitons. We discuss the accuracy of this approximation by comparing our results to those of the full numerical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-04 H. E. Baron , G. Luchini , W. J. Zakrzewski

Solitons are localised wave disturbances that propagate without changing shape, a result of a nonlinear interaction which compensates for wave packet dispersion. Individual solitons may collide, but a defining feature is that they pass…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-10 Jason H. V. Nguyen , Paul Dyke , De Luo , Boris A. Malomed , Randall G. Hulet

Using numerical modeling investigated interaction of solitary waves (solitons) of the regularized long wave equation. For reception the stable model of the nonlinear medium are used methods of the linear prediction and progressive…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. A. Bunyak

The effective dynamics of solitons for the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in a random potential is rigorously studied. It is shown that when the external potential varies slowly in space compared to the size of the soliton,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-06-17 Walid K. Abou Salem , Catherine Sulem

In this paper we study dynamics of solitons in the generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with an external potential in all dimensions except for 2. For a certain class of nonlinearities such an equation has solutions which are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhou Gang , I. M. Sigal

The stability and collapse of fundamental unstaggered bright solitons in the discrete Schrodinger equation with the nonpolynomial on-site nonlinearity, which models a nearly one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a deep optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Gligoric , A. Maluckov , Lj. Hadzievski , B. A. Malomed

We develop the analytical method of field momenta for analyzing the dynamics of optical vector solitons in photorefractive nonlinear media. First, we derive the effective evolution equations for the parameters of multi-component solitons…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilya Shadrivov , Alexander A. Zharov

In this work we mainly consider the dynamics and scattering of a narrow soliton of NLS equation with a potential in $\mathbb{R}^3$, where the asymptotic state of the system can be far from the initial state in parameter space. Specifically,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Qingquan Deng , Avy Soffer , Xiaohua Yao

We study the behavior of the soliton solutions of the equation i((\partial{\psi})/(\partialt))=-(1/(2m)){\Delta}{\psi}+(1/2)W_{{\epsilon}}'({\psi})+V(x){\psi} where W_{{\epsilon}}' is a suitable nonlinear term which is singular for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Vieri Benci , Marco Ghimenti , Anna Maria Micheletti

Coupled backward and forward wave amplitudes of an electromagnetic field propagating in a periodic and nonlinear medium at Bragg resonance are governed by the nonlinear coupled mode equations (NLCME). This system of PDEs, similar in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Roy H. Goodman , Michael I. Weinstein

We address the issue of mobility of localized modes in two-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattices with saturable nonlinearity. This describes e.g. discrete spatial solitons in a tight-binding approximation of two-dimensional optical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Rodrigo A. Vicencio , Magnus Johansson

The concept of soliton complex in a nonlinear dispersive medium is proposed. It is shown that strongly interacting identical topological solitons in the medium can form bound soliton complexes which move without radiation. This phenomenon…

patt-sol · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikhail M. Bogdan , Arnold M. Kosevich , Gerard A. Maugin

We study a two-component nonlinear Schr{\"{o}}dinger system with equal, repulsive cubic interactions and different dispersion coefficients in the two components. We consider states that have a dark solitary wave in one component. Treating…

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Soliton interactions in systems modelled by coupled nonlinear Schroedinger (CNLS) equations and encountered in phenomena such as wave propagation in optical fibers and photorefractive media possess unusual features : shape changing…

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Solitons are of the important significant in many fields of nonlinear science such as nonlinear optics, Bose-Einstein condensates, plamas physics, biology, fluid mechanics, and etc.. The stable solitons have been captured not only…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-11 Yong Chen , Zhenya Yan

We use the Riemann-Hilbert problem to study the interaction of the soliton with radiation in the parametrically driven, damped nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. The analysis is reduced to the study of a finite-dimensional dynamical system…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-26 V. S. Shchesnovich , I. V. Barashenkov

We study the dynamics of a dark-bright soliton interacting with a fixed impurity using a mean-field approach. The system is described by a vector nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLSE) appropriate to multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-09-04 Majed O. D. Alotaibi , Lincoln D. Carr

Interference patterns associated with soliton-soliton interaction are investigated in detail. We find that the temporal and spatial interference patterns exhibit quite different characteristics. The period of the spatial interference…

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