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Real-time spectroscopy based on an emerging time-stretch technique can map the spectral information of optical waves into the time domain, opening several fascinating explorations of nonlinear dynamics in mode-locked lasers. However, the…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-23 X. M. Liu , Y. D. Cui

We theoretically explore the dynamics of spatial solitons in nonlinear/interacting bosonic topological insulators. We employ a time-reversal broken Lieb-lattice analog of a Chern insulator and find that in the presence of a saturable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Jeremy L. Marzuola , Mikael Rechtsman , Braxton Osting , Miguel Bandres

We propose a general method to derive kinetic equations for dense soliton gases in physical systems described by integrable nonlinear wave equations. The kinetic equation describes evolution of the spectral distribution function of solitons…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 G. A. El , A. M. Kamchatnov

Solitons - localized wave packets that travel without spreading - play a central role in understanding transport and properties of nonlinear systems, from optical fibers to fluid dynamics. In quantum many-body systems, however, such robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Aron Kerschbaumer , Jean-Yves Desaules , Marko Ljubotina , Maksym Serbyn

We study numerically the properties of (statistically) homogeneous soliton gas depending on soliton density (proportional to number of solitons per unit length) and soliton velocities, in the framework of the focusing one-dimensional…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-24 A. A. Gelash , D. S. Agafontsev

On the basis of relationship between the kinetic equation for two soliton clouds in the theory of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and equations of the Chaplygin gas dynamics it is shown that the existence of waves propagating without a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-08 A. M. Kamchatnov , D. V. Shaykin

We put forward properties of solitons supported by optical lattices featuring topological dislocations, and show that solitons experience attractive and repulsive forces around the dislocations. Suitable arrangements of dislocations are…

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

We consider motion of a "magnetic'' soliton in two-component condensates along a non-uniform and time-dependent backgrounds in framework of the Hamiltonian mechanics. Our approach is based on generalization of Stokes' remark that soliton's…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-03-29 A. M. Kamchatnov

We study experimentally and theoretically discrete solitons in crystalline structures consisting of several tens of laser-cooled ions confined in a radiofrequency trap. Resonantly exciting localized, spectrally gapped vibrational modes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 J. Brox , P. Kiefer , M. Bujak , H. Landa , T. Schaetz

We consider the interplay between nonlocal nonlinearity and randomness for two different nonlinear Schr\"odinger models. We show that stability of bright solitons in presence of random perturbations increases dramatically with the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-06-07 F. Maucher , W. Krolikowski , S. Skupin

A systematic method is proposed for the determination of the statistical properties of a field consisting of a coherent structure interacting with turbulent linear waves. The explicit expression of the generating functional of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Spineanu , M. Vlad

In this report, fundamental educational concepts of linear and non-linear equations and solutions of nonlinear equations from the book High-Temperature Superconductivity: The Nonlinear Mechanism and Tunneling Measurements (Kluwer Academic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 Yousef Yousefi , Khikmat Kh. Muminov

The susceptibility of timestepping algorithms to numerical instabilities is an important consideration when simulating partial differential equations (PDEs). Here we identify and analyze a pernicious numerical instability arising in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Benjamin A. Hyatt , Daniel Lecoanet , Evan H. Anders , Keaton J. Burns

A simple model of wave-particle interaction is studied in its self-consistent form, that is, where the particles are allowed to feedback on the waves dynamics. We focus on the configurations of locked solutions (equilibria) and how the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-16 Matheus Jean Lazarotto , Iberê Luiz Caldas , Yves Elskens

We experimentally isolate and directly observe multimode solitons in few-mode graded-index fiber. By varying the input energy and modal composition of the launched pulse, we observe a continuous variation of multimode solitons with…

In this work we study the dynamics and stability of charged solitons in trans-polyacetylene (tPA), and revisit the issue of the stability of these non-linear excitations under the effect of an external electric field applied parallel to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Leandro M. Arancibia , Cristián G. Sánchez , Alejandro M. Lobos

It is shown here that in neutral ion gases the thermal energy transport can occur in the form of new types of thermal soliton waves. The solitons can form under a vanishing net heating function, and for a quadratic net heating. It is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-29 Babur M. Mirza

We study (2+1)-dimensional multicomponent spatial vector solitons with a nontrivial topological structure of their constituents, and demonstrate that these solitary waves exhibit a symmetry-breaking instability provided their total…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 Anton S. Desyatnikov , Yuri S. Kivshar , Kristian Motzek , Friedemann Kaiser , Carsten Weilnau , Cornelia Denz

We study the stability, form and interaction of single and multiple dark solitons in quasi-one-dimensional dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. The solitons are found numerically as stationary solutions in the moving frame of a non-local…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-28 M. J. Edmonds , T. Bland , D. H. J. O'Dell , N. G. Parker

The effect of an externally applied force upon dynamics of dissipative solitons is analyzed in the framework of the one-dimensional cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation supplemented by a linear potential term. The potential…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-02-08 Bogdan A. Kochetov , Vladimir R. Tuz