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Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-10-23 Liangwei Zeng , Jianhua Zeng

This article presents a concise survey of basic discrete and semi-discrete nonlinear models which produce two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) solitons, and a summary of main theoretical and experimental results obtained for such…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-01-31 Boris A. Malomed

A model including two nonlinear chains with linear and nonlinear couplings between them, and opposite signs of the discrete diffraction inside the chains, is introduced. For [$\chi ^{(3)}$] nonlinearity, the model finds two different…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , B. A. Malomed , Z. Musslimani

It has been recently demonstrated that self-defocusing (SDF) media with the cubic nonlinearity, whose local coefficient grows from the center to periphery fast enough, support stable bright solitons, without the use of any linear potential.…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jianhua Zeng , Boris A. Malomed

We report results of the study of solitons in a system of two nonlinear-Schrodinger (NLS) equations coupled by the XPM interaction, which models the co-propagation of two waves in metamaterials(MMs). The same model applies to photonic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-14 Peter Y. P. Chen , Boris A. Malomed

We show that the balance between localized gain and nonlinear cubic dissipation in the twodimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation allows for existence of stable two-dimensional localized modes which we identify as solitons. Such modes…

We consider a two-dimensional (2D) nonlinear Schrodinger equation with self-focusing nonlinearity and a quasi-1D double-channel potential, i.e., a straightforward 2D extension of the well-known double-well potential. The model may be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Matuszewski , B. A. Malomed , M. Trippenbach

We introduce a setting based on the one-dimensional (1D) nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLSE) with the self-focusing (SF) cubic term modulated by a singular function of the coordinate, |x|^{-a}. It may be additionally combined with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-04 Olga V. Borovkova , Valery E. Lobanov , Boris A. Malomed

We study the stability of gap solitons of the super-Tonks-Girardeau bosonic gas in one-dimensional periodic potential. The linear stability analysis indicates that increasing the amplitude of periodic potential or decreasing the nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-04 T. F. Xu , X. L. Jing , H. G. Luo , C. S. Liu

We develop the scheme of dispersion management (DM) for three-dimensional (3D) solitons in a multimode optical fiber. It is modeled by the parabolic confining potential acting in the transverse plane in combination with the cubic…

Searching for three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons (also known as light/optical bullets) has recently attracted keen theoretical and experimental interests in nonlinear physics. Currently, optical lattices of diverse kinds have been…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-09 Zhiming Chen , Jianhua Zeng

We study the dynamics of solitons under the action of one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice potentials, fractional diffraction, and nonlinearity. The formation and stability of the solitons is investigated in the framework of the fractional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-04-11 Eduard Pavlyshynets , Luca Salasnich , Boris A. Malomed , Alexander Yakimenko

In this work, we present a detailed study of the dynamics and stability of fundamental spatiotemporal solitons emerging in multimode waveguides with a parabolic transverse profile of the linear refractive index. Pulsed beam propagation in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-16 Pedro Parra-Rivas , Yifan Sun , Stefan Wabnitz

We introduce a general model which augments the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation by nonlinear-diffraction terms competing with the linear diffraction. The new terms contain two irreducible parameters and admit a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Shen , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker , Boris A. Malomed

We construct one soliton solutions for the nonlinear Schroedinger equation with variable quadratic Hamiltonians in a unified form by taking advantage of a complete (super) integrability of generalized harmonic oscillators. The soliton wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Erwin Suazo , Sergei K. Suslov

A periodically inhomogeneous Schrodinger equation is considered. The inhomogeneity is reflected through a non-uniform coefficient of the linear and non-linear term in the equation. Due to the periodic inhomogeneity of the linear term, the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-01-16 R. Marangell , H. Susanto , C. K. R. T. Jones

We demonstrate that families of vortex solitons are possible in a bi-dispersive three-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation. These solutions can be considered as extensions of two-dimensional dark vortex solitons which, along the third…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Nikolaos K. Efremidis , Kyriakos Hizanidis , Boris A. Malomed , Paolo Di Trapani

The work is devoted to numerical investigation of stability of stationary localized modes ("gap solitons") for the one-dimentional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) with periodic potential and repulsive nonlinearity. Two classes of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-31 Pavel P. Kizin

We consider shapes and dynamics of semi-discrete solitons (SDSs) in the known model of the set of linearly-coupled waveguides with the intrinsic cubic nonlinearity. The model applies to the description of a planar array of optical fibers,…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Roy Blit , Boris A. Malomed

The existence and stability of defect solitons supported by parity-time (PT) symmetric superlattices with nonlocal nonlinearity are investigated. In the semi-infinite gap, in-phase solitons are found to exist stably for positive or zero…

Optics · Physics 2012-04-17 Sumei Hu , Daquan Lu , Xuekai Ma , Qi Guo , Wei Hu