Solitons in nonlinear lattices

YV Kartashov, BA Malomed, L Torner - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
This article offers a comprehensive survey of results obtained for solitons and complex
nonlinear wave patterns supported by nonlinear lattices (NLs), which represent a spatially …

Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

Z Chen, M Segev… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

Laguerre and Hermite soliton clusters in nonlocal nonlinear media

D Buccoliero, AS Desyatnikov, W Krolikowski… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
We introduce novel classes of higher-order spatial optical solitons in analogy with Laguerre-
Gaussian and Hermite-Gaussian linear eigenmodes. We reveal that stable higher-order …

Spiraling anomalous vortex beam arrays in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media

L Song, Z Yang, S Zhang, X Li - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We introduce a class of spiraling anomalous vortex beam (AVB) arrays in strongly nonlocal
nonlinear media. The general analytical formula for the arrays is derived, and its …

Anisotropic solitons in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

I Tikhonenkov, BA Malomed, A Vardi - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
Starting with a Gaussian variational ansatz, we predict anisotropic bright solitons in quasi-
2D Bose-Einstein condensates consisting of atoms with dipole moments polarized …

Metastability of quantum droplet clusters

YV Kartashov, BA Malomed, L Torner - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We show that metastable ring-shaped clusters can be constructed from two-dimensional
quantum droplets in systems described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equations augmented with …

Transformation of multipole and vortex solitons in the nonlocal nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation by means of Lévy-index management

Q Wang, L Zhang, BA Malomed, D Mihalache… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2022 - Elsevier
The structure and stability of multipole and vortex solitons in the nonlocal nonlinear
fractional Schrödinger equation with a gradually decreasing Lévy index, α, are numerically …

Metastable soliton necklaces supported by fractional diffraction and competing nonlinearities

P Li, BA Malomed, D Mihalache - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that the fractional cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation,
characterized by its Lévy index, maintains ring-shaped soliton clusters (“necklaces") carrying …

Nonlocal surface-wave solitons

B Alfassi, C Rotschild, O Manela, M Segev… - Physical review …, 2007 - APS
We demonstrate, experimentally and theoretically, surface-wave solitons occurring at the
interface between a dielectric medium (air) and a nonlinear material with a very long-range …

Solitons supported by complex -symmetric Gaussian potentials

S Hu, X Ma, D Lu, Z Yang, Y Zheng, W Hu - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2011 - APS
The existence and stability of fundamental, dipole, and tripole solitons in Kerr nonlinear
media with parity-time-symmetric Gaussian complex potentials are reported. Fundamental …