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The transition from integrable to non-integrable highly-dispersive nonlinear models is investigated. The sine-Gordon and $\phi^4$-equations with the additional fourth-order spatial and spatio-temporal derivatives, describing the higher…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-04-24 Oksana V. Charkina , Mikhail M. Bogdan

An impact of kink-type solitons on infrared lattice vibrations is studied for incommensurate Frenkel-Kontorova model. It is shown that the vibration of particles involved into the kink formation is very similar to that in a gap mode around…

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Dynamics of solitons of the Ablowitz-Ladik model in the presence of a random potential is studied. In absence of the random potential it is an integrable model and the solitons are stable. As a result of the random potential this stability…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-01-20 Zhi-Yuan Sun , Shmuel Fishman , Avy Soffer

We put forward new properties of lattice solitons in materials and geometries where both, the linear refractive index and the nonlinearity are spatially modulated. We show that the interplay between linear and out-of-phase nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

A variable-coefficient forced Korteweg-de Vries equation with spacial inhomogeneity is investigated in this paper. Under constraints, this equation is transformed into its bilinear form, and multi-soliton solutions are derived. Effects of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-18 Xin Yu , Zhi-Yuan Sun , Kai-Wen Zhou , Yu-Jia Shen

Solitons are self-sustained wavepackets that occur in many physical systems. Their recent demonstration in optical microresonators has provided a new platform for study of nonlinear optical physics with practical implications for…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-24 Xu Yi , Qi-Fan Yang , Ki Youl Yang , Kerry Vahala

We introduce a soliton model to describe conformational structure of poly(oxyethylene) in aqueous solution. The model is based on former investigations for twistons in polyethylene, and the soliton solution corresponds to stable excitation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bazeia , M. Z. Hernandes , A. M. Simas

We analyze the transverse instabilities of spatial bright solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media, both analytically and numerically. We demonstrate that the nonlocal nonlinear response leads to a dramatic suppression of the transverse…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 YuanYao Lin , Ray-Kuang Lee , Yuri S. Kivshar

We address the formation and propagation of multi-spot soliton packets in saturable Kerr nonlinear media with an imprinted harmonic transverse modulation of the refractive index. We show that, in sharp contrast to homogeneous media where…

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

The long-term behavior of a modulationally unstable conservative nonintegrable system is known to be characterized by the soliton turbulence self-organization process. We consider this problem in the presence of a long-range interaction in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-08-31 Josselin Garnier , Kilian Baudin , Adrien Fusaro , Antonio Picozzi

We review spectral theory of soliton gases in integrable dispersive hydrodynamic systems. We first present a phenomenological approach based on the consideration of phase shifts in pairwise soliton collisions and leading to the kinetic…

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In this work we study the interactions between stabilized Townes solitons. By means of effective Lagrangian methods, we have found that the interactions between these solitons are governed by central forces, in a first approximation. In our…

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A model of the optical media with a spatially structured Kerr nonlinearity is introduced. The nonlinearity strength is modulated by a set of singular peaks on top of a self-focusing or defocusing uniform background. The peaks may include a…

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We study stability and dynamics of the single cylindrically symmetric solitary structures and dipolar solitonic molecules in spatially nonlocal media. The main properties of the solitons, vortex solitons, and dipolar solitons are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-08 A. I. Yakimenko , V. M. Lashkin , O. O. Prikhodko

We study the stability and dynamics of solitons in the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation in the presence of noise and deterministic forcing. The noise is space-dependent and statistically translation-invariant. We show that, for small…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Rik W. S. Westdorp , Hermen Jan Hupkes

In this paper, we employ, for the first time, the holographic gravity approach to investigate the dynamical stability of solitons in spherical superfluids. Transverse perturbations are applied to the background of spherical soliton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-29 Meng Gao , Yu Tian , Changxu Yan , Hongbao Zhang

Solitons have garnered significant attention across various fields, yet a contentious debate persists regarding the precise structure of solitons on indium chains. Currently, multiple forms of solitons in one-dimensional atomic chains have…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-21 Yu Yao , Chaojie Luo , Xiuxia Wang , Hui Zhang

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation supports solitons -- self-interacting, localized states that behave as nearly independent objects. We exhibit solitons with self-induced nonreciprocal dynamics in a discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-15 Pedro Fittipaldi de Castro , Wladimir Alejandro Benalcazar

We compute the vacuum polarization energies for a couple of soliton models in one space and one time dimensions. These solitons are mappings that connect different degenerate vacua. From the considered sample solitons we conjecture that the…

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