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We theoretically investigate the scattering of bright solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate on narrow attractive potential wells. Reflection, transmission and trapping of an incident soliton are predicted to occur with remarkably abrupt…
Scattering of solitons and dark solitons by potential walls is studied in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation under various conditions. We investigate the conditions under which solitons are split into two solitons at the potential wall. We…
We consider the interaction of one- and two-photon pulses in a waveguide with two two-level systems (TLS) that are also able to interact directly either through an exchange- or a dipole-type interaction. We focus on the system's transport…
We study the effects of the generic weak nonlinear loss on fast two-pulse interactions in linear waveguides. The colliding pulses are described by a system of coupled Schr\"odinger equations with a purely nonlinear coupling in the presence…
Solitons confined in a channel are studied in the two-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equation. When a channel branches into two channels, a soliton is split into two solitons, if the initial kinetic energy exceeds a critical value. The…
Although extreme or freak waves are repeatedly measured in the oceans, their origin is largely unknown. The interaction of different water waves is seen as one reason for their emergence. One way to consider nonlinear waves in deep water is…
The novel inelastic collision properties of two-soliton interaction for an $n$-component coupled higher order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation are studied. Some interesting features of three soliton interactions, related to the…
We study the scattering of solitons in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation on local inhomogeneities which may give rise to resonant transmission and reflection. In both cases, we derive resonance conditions for the soliton's velocity. The…
The novel dynamical features underlying soliton interactions in coupled nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equations, which model multimode wave propagation under varied physical situations in nonlinear optics, are studied. In this paper, by…
A system of two coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equations is treated. In addition, a linear coupling which models an external driven field described by the Rabi frequency is considered. Asymptotics for large Rabi frequency are carried out.…
Scalar particles are a common prediction of many beyond the Standard Model theories. If they are light and cold enough, there is a possibility they may form Bose-Einstein condensates, which will then become gravitationally bound. These…
We show that, for the 1d cubic NLS equation, widely separated equal amplitude in-phase solitons attract and opposite-phase solitons repel. Our result gives an exact description of the evolution of the two solitons valid until the solitons…
The interaction of moving discrete solitons with a linear Gaussian defect is investigated. Solitons with profiles varying from hyperbolic secant to exponentially localized are considered such that the mobility of soliton is maintained; the…
Wecritically review the recent progress in understanding soliton propagation in birefringent optical fibers.By constructing the most general bright two-soliton solution of the integrable coupled nonlinear Schroedinger equation (Manakov…
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,…
We develop a theory for non-planar interaction between two identical type I spatial solitons propagating at opposite, but arbitrary transverse angles in quadratic nonlinear (or so-called chi(2)) bulk media. We predict quantitatively the…
We describe an effective resonant interaction between two localized wave modes of different nature: a plasmon-polariton at a metal surface and a self-focusing beam (spatial soliton) in a non-linear dielectric medium. Propagating in the same…
In this paper we investigate the dynamics of solitons occurring in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation when a parameter h->0. We prove that under suitable assumptions, the the soliton approximately follows the dynamics of a point particle,…
In this paper we present some recent results concerning the ex- istence, the stability and the dynamics of solitons occurring in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation when the parameter h -> 0. We focus on the role played by the Energy and…
We present exact N-soliton optical pulses riding on a continuous-wave (c.w.) beam that propagate through and interact with a two-level active optical medium. Their representation is derived via an appropriate generalization of the inverse…