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We construct families of one-dimensional (1D) stable solitons in two-component $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and quintic nonlinearity, which plays the critical role in 1D setups. The system models light…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-02 Gennadiy Burlak , Zhaopin Chen , Boris A. Malomed

The collisions of three-dimensional bright solitary matter waves formed from atomic Bose-Einstein condensates are shown to exhibit rich behaviour. Collisions range from being elastic to completely destructive due to the onset of collapse…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 N. G. Parker , A. M. Martin , S. L. Cornish , C. S. Adams

We study the motion of bright matter wave solitons in nonlinear potentials, produced by periodic or random spatial variations of the atomic scattering length. We obtain analytical results for the soliton motion, the radiation of matter…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Josselin Garnier

Soliton molecules have been experimentally discovered in optics and theoretically investigated for coupled systems. This paper is concerned with the formation of soliton molecules by the resonant mechanism for a noncoupled system, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-04-15 Zhaowen Yan , Senyue Lou

We show how access to sufficiently flexible trapping potentials could be exploited in the generation of three-dimensional atomic bright matter-wave solitons. Our proposal provides a route towards producing bright solitonic states with good…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-14 M. J. Edmonds , T. P. Billam , S. A. Gardiner , Th. Busch

Relativistic solitons are self-trapped, finite size, electromagnetic waves of relativistic intensity that propagate without diffraction spreading. They have been predicted theoretically within the relativistic fluid approximation, and have…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Daniela Farina , Sergei V. Bulanov

We investigate the existence and stability of three-dimensional (3D) solitons supported by cylindrical Bessel lattices (BLs) in self-focusing media. If the lattice strength exceeds a threshold value, we show numerically, and using the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Mihalache , D. Mazilu , F. Lederer , B. A. Malomed , Y. V. Kartashov , L. -C. Crasovan , L. Torner

The existence of solitons -- stable, long-lived, and localized field configurations -- is a generic prediction for ultralight dark matter. These solitons, known by various names such as boson stars, axion stars, oscillons, and Q-balls…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Hong-Yi Zhang

We investigate the dynamics of matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying atomic scattering length and nonlinearity. The dynamics of bright and dark solitary waves is studied using the corresponding Gross-Pitaevskii…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Theocharis , P. Schmelcher , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

A vortex molecule is predicted in rotating two-component Bose-Einstein condensates whose internal hyperfine states are coupled coherently by an external field. A vortex in one component and that in the other are connected by a domain wall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Makoto Tsubota , Masahito Ueda

We use a multiple time scale boundary layer theory to derive the equation of motion for a dark (or `grey') soliton propagating through an effectively one-dimensional cloud of Bose-Einstein condensate, assuming only that the background…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Th. Busch , J. R. Anglin

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of spin solitary waves (magnetic solitons) in a harmonically trapped, binary superfluid mixture. We measure the in-situ density of each pseudospin component and their relative local phase via an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-17 A. Farolfi , D. Trypogeorgos , C. Mordini , G. Lamporesi , G. Ferrari

We propose a method of forming matter-wave soliton molecules that is inspired by the recent experiment of Dris {\it et al.}. In the proposed set-up we show that if two solitons are initially prepared in phase and with a sufficiently small…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 U. Al Khawaja , H. T. C. Stoof

We report on the generation, subsequent oscillation and interaction of a pair of matter wave dark solitons. These are created by releasing a Bose-Einstein condensate from a double well potential into a harmonic trap in the crossover regime…

We model propagation of far-red-detuned optical vortex beams through a Bose-Einstein Condensate using nonlinear Schr\"odinger and Gross-Pitaevskii equations. We show the formation of coupled light/atomic solitons that rotate azimuthally…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-15 Grant Henderson , Gordon R. M. Robb , Gian-Luca Oppo , Alison M. Yao

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

Nonlocality is a key feature of many physical systems since it prevents a catastrophic collapse and a symmetry-breaking azimuthal instability of intense wave beams in a bulk self-focusing nonlinear media. This opens up an intriguing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-16 V. M. Biloshytskyi , A. O. Oliynyk , P. M. Kruglenko , A. S. Desyatnikov , A. I. Yakimenko

The dynamics of several light filaments (spatial optical solitons) propagating in an optically nonlinear and non-local random medium is investigated using the paradigms of the physics of complexity. Cluster formation is interpreted as a…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudio Conti

We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying nonlinearity. It is demonstrated that a translation mode is excited due to the spatial inhomogeneity and its frequency is derived analytically and also…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Niarchou , G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis , P. Schmelcher , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We study the dynamics of bright solitons formed in a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive atomic interactions perturbed by a weak bichromatic optical lattice potential. The lattice depth is a biperiodic function of time with a zero…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Dario Poletti , Tristram J. Alexander , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Baowen Li , Yuri S. Kivshar