Stability Of Bright Solitons Research Articles

Stationary and moving bright solitons in Bose–Einstein condensates with spin–orbit coupling in a Zeeman field

We explore the existence and stability domains of stationary and moving bright solitons in spin–orbit-coupled spin-1 Bose–Einstein condensates in an external Zeeman field. Two families of bell-shape bright solitons (plane-wave (PW) phases) and two families of stripe-shape bright solitons (standing-wave (SW) phases) are obtained. We find a relation between the existence of these bright solitons and the single-particle energy spectrum, as well as the requirements of their existence for atomic interactions. The stability of four families of bright solitons is systematically analyzed using the linear stability analysis method. For two families of PW bright solitons, they are unstable only when the strength of the Zeeman field is above a critical value. The critical value is affected by the spin–orbit coupling and hardly affected by atomic interactions. When the velocities of solitons are zero (nonzero), the critical values of these two families are equal (unequal). For two families of SW bright solitons, their stability domains are identical in the absence of the Zeeman field, and they are unstable when the ferromagnetic interaction is strong. In the presence of the Zeeman field, their stability domains are complementary and complex, and one family of SW bright solitons can exist stably in the area with stronger ferromagnetic interaction. Furthermore, we find the collisions of stable bright solitons with different velocities can generate intriguing dynamics.

Rydberg-dressed solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates with parity-time symmetry

Generating stable bright solitons in free space has been a long-standing goal in the study of matter waves in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Rydberg-induced matter wave demonstrates an excellent effect in balancing the repulsive and attractive interactions between remote atoms. Parity-time (PT) symmetric lattices have been widely studied in controlling the flow of matter waves. In this study, we theoretically investigated the localization of nonlinear matter waves in the PT-symmetric Rydberg atomic BECs system. The numerical simulation method was used to obtain the stationary solutions of the wave function by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) of the Rydberg-dressed BECs system. Fundamental, higher-order solitons and vortical ones were uncovered, and their stabilities were evaluated through linear-stability analysis and direct simulation with perturbation. Furthermore, the collision of solitons exhibited a quasi-elastic feature.

Stable fundamental two-dimensional solitons in media with competing nonlocal interactions

Soliton attract a great deal of attention across various disciplines, from optics to fluid mechanics, cosmology, as well as particle and condensed matter physics, due to their unique characteristics and applications. Although various soliton solutions are known, it is rare to find stable fundamental bright solitons with complex amplitude structures in two transverse dimensions. Here we show that the interplay between nonlocal nonlinear light–matter attraction and repulsion can lead to novel types of solutions in two spatial dimensions. We find unusual new fundamental soliton solutions exhibiting complex intensity but constant phase profiles with rectangular and cylindrical symmetries. We also employ an analytically tractable novel model for a complex linear potential whose two-peak ground states mimic two-peak solitons.

Quartic Kerr cavity combs: bright and dark solitons.

We theoretically investigate the dynamics, bifurcation structure, and stability of localized states in Kerr cavities driven at the pure fourth-order dispersion point. Both the normal and anomalous group velocity dispersion regimes are analyzed, highlighting the main differences from the standard second-order dispersion case. In the anomalous regime, single and multi-peak localized states exist and are stable over a much wider region of the parameter space. In the normal dispersion regime, stable narrow bright solitons exist. Some of our findings can be understood using a new, to the best of our knowledge, scenario reported here for the spatial eigenvalues, which imposes oscillatory tails to all localized states.

Stability and non-linear dynamic analysis of Kerr optical frequencycombs in dual-coupled microcavities with high-order dispersion

We investigate the stability and nonlinear dynamics of the Kerr optical frequency comb inside a dual coupled microcavity with high-order dispersion effect based on the theoretical model of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equation. The effects of different high-order dispersion parameters on the evolution and spectral characteristics of the optical field in the cavity are also explored. Theoretical results indicate that the addition of the third-order dispersion enlarges the stability domain of the parametric space and transforms the periodically varying soliton breathers and chaos into stable bright soliton. In order to obtain an accurate Kerr optical frequency comb spectral envelope, higher-order dispersion should be considered. Moreover, high-order dispersion terms have a significant effect on the spectral characteristics of the optical frequency comb, such as the spectral envelope frequency shift and the dispersive wave spectral position. Specifically, the third-order dispersion and positive fourth-order dispersion can broaden the spectrum and enhance the dispersive waves; while the negative fourth-order dispersion can suppress the dispersive wave generation and obtain a symmetric soliton frequency comb; the fifth-order dispersion can regulate the drift direction and speed of the optical solitons. The theoretical results are of great value for dispersion regulation and design and also for stability studies in double-coupled microcavity experiments.

Interactions of the solitons in periodic driven-dissipative systems supporting quasibound states in the continuum.

The paper is devoted to the dynamics of dissipative gap solitons in the periodically corrugated optical waveguides whose spectrum of linear excitations contains a mode that can be referred to as a quasi-bound state in the continuum. These systems can support a large variety of stable bright and dark dissipative solitons that can interact with each other and with the inhomogeneities of the pump. One of the focus points of this work is the influence of slow variations of the pump on the behavior of the solitons. It is shown that for the fixed sets of parameters the effect of pump inhomogeneities on the solitons is not the same for the solitons of different kinds. The second main goal of the paper is systematic study of the interaction between the solitons of the same or different kinds. It is demonstrated that various scenarios of intersoliton interactions can occur: The solitons can repulse each other or get attracted. In the latter case, the solitons can annihilate, fuse in a single soliton, or form a new bound state depending on the kinds of the interacting solitons and on the system parameters.

Management of bright solitons in tapered power-law nonlinear media

The self-similar propagation properties of bright solitons in tapered power-law nonlinear media are investigated analytically. The effect of different dispersion and nonlinearity profiles on the soliton propagation process is analyzed in detail. Our results show that the bright solitons can be compressed and broadened in dispersion-decreasing and dispersion-periodic nonlinear media by designing the coefficient parameters. In particular, we discuss the relevant conditions of system parameters for soliton propagation, and obtain the analytical expressions of regions of soliton compression and broadening. The stability of bright solitons has also been tested by numerical simulations. These results may have potential applications to control soliton propagations in tapered power-law nonlinear media.

Effects of Quantum Fluctuations on -Symmetric Solitons of a Trapped Bose Gas**Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 11647017, 11805116, 21703166, and supported by Science Research Fund of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology under Grant No. BJ16-03

Considering the quantum fluctuation effects, the existence and stability of solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate subjected in a -symmetric potential are discussed. Using the variational approach, we investigate how the quantum fluctuation affects the self-localization and stability of the condensate with attractive two-body interactions. The results show that the quantum fluctuation dramatically influences the shape, width, and chemical potential of the condensate. Analytical variational computation also predicts there exists a positive critical quantum fluctuation strength qc with each fixed attractive two-body interaction g0, if the quantum fluctuation strength q0 is bigger than qc, there is no bright soliton solution existence. We also study the effects of the quantum fluctuations on the stability of solitons using the Vakhitov-Kolokolov (VK) stability criterion. A robust stable bright soliton will always exist when the quantum fluctuation strength q0 belongs to the parameter regimes qc ≥ q0 > 0.

One-dimensional solitons in fractional Schrödinger equation with a spatially periodical modulated nonlinearity: nonlinear lattice

The existence and stability of stable bright solitons in one-dimensional (1D) media with a spatially periodical modulated Kerr nonlinearity are demonstrated by means of the linear-stability analysis and in direct numerical simulations. The nonlinear potential landscape can balance the fractional-order diffraction and thus stabilizes the solitons, making the model unique and governed by the recently introduced fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a self-focusing cubic nonlinear lattice. Both 1D fundamental and multihump solitons (in forms of dipole and tripole ones) are found, which occupy one or three cells of the nonlinear lattice respectively, depending on the soliton's power (intensity). We find that the profiles of the predicted soliton families are impacted intensely by the L\'{e}vy index $\alpha$ which denotes the level of fractional Laplacian, so does to their stability. The stabilization of soliton families is possible if $\alpha$ exceeds a threshold value, below which the balance between fractional-order diffraction and the spatially modulated focusing nonlinearity will be broken.

Variational Approach to Study -Symmetric Solitons in a Bose–Einstein Condensate with Non-locality of Interactions**Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11647017, 11805116 and 21703166, and the Science Research Fund of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology under Grant No BJ16-03.

Considering the non-locality of interactions in a Bose–Einstein condensate, the existence and stability of solitons subject to a -symmetric potential are discussed. In the framework of the variational approach, we investigate how the non-locality of interactions affects the self-localization and stability of a condensate with attractive two-body interactions. The results reveal that the non-locality of interactions dramatically influences the shape, width, and chemical potential of the condensate. Analytically variational computation also predicts that there exists a critical negative non-local interaction strength (pc < 0) with each fixed two-body interaction (g0 < 0), and there exists no bright soliton solution for p0 < pc. Furthermore, we study the effect of the non-locality interactions on the stability of the solitons using the Vakhitov–Kolokolov stability criterion. It is shown that for a positive non-local interaction (p0 > 0), there always exist stable bright solitons in some appropriate parameter regimes.

Stationary wave packets in the Kerr nonlinear media with imaginary harmonic potential and linear gain

The existence of stationary wave packets in the nonlinear Kerr media with an imaginary harmonic potential and a linear gain is investigated. By employing a variational approach the existence of stable bright solitons is shown for the case of a defocusing nonlinearity. In focusing nonlinear media, the bright solitons have been shown to be unstable. The predictions of variational approach are confirmed by numerical simulations of the full modified NLS equation. The predicted stationary localized wave packets can be observed in a quasi-one-dimensional BEC with an imaginary optical potential and atoms feeding.

The evolution and deflection characteristics of Gaussian beam in photovoltaic photorefractive crystal circuit with dark soliton intensity effect

In this paper, based on the theory of the separate spatial soliton pair, the dynamical evolution and deflection characteristics of Gaussian beam in a biased series photovoltaic photorefractive crystals circuit are investigated numerically by taking into account the variation of the dark soliton intensity. The results show that changing the dark soliton intensity in one crystal can modulate the dynamical evolution and deflection of Gaussian beam in the other crystal. When the change of the dark soliton intensity is large enough, the matched Gaussian beam can not evolve into a solitary wave. By adjusting the dark soliton intensity a mismatched Gaussian beam can evolve into a stable bright soliton. We give some examples in this paper.

Quasi-one-dimensional spin-orbit- and Rabi-coupled bright dipolar Bose-Einstein-condensate solitons

We study the formation of stable bright solitons in quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) spin-orbit- (SO-) and Rabi-coupled two pseudospinor dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of 164 Dy atoms in the presence of repulsive contact interactions. As a result of the combined attraction-repulsion effect of both interactions and the addition of SO and Rabi couplings, two kinds of ground states in the form of self-trapped bright solitons can be formed, a plane-wave soliton (PWS) and a stripe soliton (SS). These quasi-1D solitons cannot exist in a condensate with purely repulsive contact interactions and SO and Rabi couplings (no dipole). Neglecting the repulsive contact interactions, our findings also show the possibility of creating PWSs and SSs. When the strengths of the two interactions are close to each other, the SS develops an oscillatory instability indicating a possibility of a breather solution, eventually leading to its destruction. We also obtain a phase diagram showing regions where the solution is a PWS or SS.

The nonlinear Schrödinger equation with generalized nonlinearities and PT-symmetric potentials: Stable solitons, interactions, and excitations.

We investigate the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation with generalized nonlinearities and complex non-Hermitian potentials and present the novel parity-time-( PT-) symmetric potentials for the NLS equation with power-law nonlinearities supporting some bright solitons. For distinct types of PT-symmetric potentials including Scarf-II, Hermite-Gaussian, and asymptotically periodic potentials, we, respectively, explore the phase transitions for the linear Hamiltonian operators. Moreover, we analytically find stable bright solitons in the generalized NLS equations with several types of PT-symmetric potentials, and their stability is corroborated by the linear stability spectrum and direct wave-propagation simulations. Interactions of two solitons are also explored. More interestingly, we find that the nonlinearity can excite the unstable linear modes (i.e., possessing broken linear PT-symmetric phase) to stable nonlinear modes. The results may excite potential applications in nonlinear optics, Bose-Einstein condensates, and relevant fields.

Coexistence of stable dark- and bright-soliton Kerr combs in normal-dispersion resonators

Using the Lugiato-Lefever model, we analyze the effects of third order chromatic dispersion on the existence and stability of dark and bright soliton Kerr frequency combs in the normal dispersion regime. While in the absence of third order dispersion only dark solitons exist over an extended parameter range, we find that third order dispersion allows for stable dark and bright solitons to coexist. Reversibility is broken and the shape of the switching waves connecting the top and bottom homogeneous solutions is modified. Bright solitons come into existence thanks to the generation of oscillations in the switching wave profiles. Finally, oscillatory instabilities of dark solitons are also suppressed in the presence of sufficiently strong third order dispersion.

Stable parity-time-symmetric nonlinear modes and excitations in a derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation.

The effect of derivative nonlinearity and parity-time-symmetric (PT-symmetric) potentials on the wave propagation dynamics is explored in the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation, where the physically interesting Scarf-II and harmonic-Hermite-Gaussian potentials are chosen. We study numerically the regions of unbroken and broken linear PT-symmetric phases and find some stable bright solitons of this model in a wide range of potential parameters even though the corresponding linear PT-symmetric phases are broken. The semielastic interactions between particular bright solitons and exotic incident waves are illustrated such that we find that particular nonlinear modes almost keep their shapes after interactions even if the exotic incident waves have evidently been changed. Moreover, we exert the adiabatic switching on PT-symmetric potential parameters such that a stable nonlinear mode with the unbroken linear PT-symmetric phase can be excited to another stable nonlinear mode belonging to the broken linear PT-symmetric phase.

Quantum soliton in 1D Heisenberg spin chains with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya and next-nearest-neighbor interactions.

We report in this work, an analytical study of quantum soliton in 1D Heisenberg spin chains with Dzyaloshinsky-Moriya Interaction (DMI) and Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interactions (NNNI). By means of the time-dependent Hartree approximation and the semi-discrete multiple-scale method, the equation of motion for the single-boson wave function is reduced to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. It comes from this present study that the spectrum of the frequencies increases, its periodicity changes, in the presence of NNNI. The antisymmetric feature of the DMI was probed from the dispersion curve while changing the sign of the parameter controlling it. Five regions were identified in the dispersion spectrum, when the NNNI are taken into account instead of three as in the opposite case. In each of these regions, the quantum model can exhibit quantum stationary localized and stable bright or dark soliton solutions. In each region, we could set up quantum localized n-boson Hartree states as well as the analytical expression of their energy level, respectively. The accuracy of the analytical studies is confirmed by the excellent agreement with the numerical calculations, and it certifies the stability of the stationary quantum localized solitons solutions exhibited in each region. In addition, we found that the intensity of the localization of quantum localized n-boson Hartree states increases when the NNNI are considered. We also realized that the intensity of Hartree n-boson states corresponding to quantum discrete soliton states depend on the wave vector.

On stable solitons and interactions of the generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation with PT- and non-PT-symmetric potentials

We report the bright solitons of the generalized Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation with some types of physically relevant parity-time- (PT-) and non-PT-symmetric potentials. We find that the constant momentum coefficient Γ can modulate the linear stability and complicated transverse power-flows (not always from the gain toward loss) of nonlinear modes. However, the varying momentum coefficient Γ(x) can modulate both unbroken linear PT-symmetric phases and stability of nonlinear modes. Particularly, the nonlinearity can excite the unstable linear mode (i.e., broken linear PT-symmetric phase) to stable nonlinear modes. Moreover, we also find stable bright solitons in the presence of non-PT-symmetric harmonic-Gaussian potential. The interactions of two bright solitons are also illustrated in PT-symmetric potentials. Finally, we consider nonlinear modes and transverse power-flows in the three-dimensional (3D) GP equation with the generalized PT-symmetric Scarff-II potential.

Effect of the dark soliton crystal temperature on the dynamical evolution of Gaussian beam in a biased series photorefractive crystal circuit

Based on the theory of separate spatial soliton pair and the evolution of Gaussian beam in a photorefractive crystal, we investigate the effect of the dark soliton crystal temperature on the dynamical evolution of Gaussian beam in a biased series circuit consisting of two non-photovoltaic photorefractive crystals numerically. Results show that adjusting the temperature of the dark soliton crystal can modulate the dynamical evolution of Gaussian beam in the other crystal. For example, the matched Gaussian beam cannot evolve into a solitary wave when the change of the dark soliton crystal temperature is large enough and a mismatched Gaussian beam can evolve into a stable bright soliton by adjusting the temperature of the dark soliton crystal. Some examples are given in this paper.

Temperature effects on (1+1)-dimensional steady-state bright spatial solitons in biased photorefractive crystals with both the linear and quadratic effects

The temperature effects on the intensity profile, self-deflection process, and stability of (1 + 1)-dimensional steady-state bright solitons resulting from both the linear and quadratic electro-optic effects are comprehensively analyzed. Moreover, three physical factors, i.e. diffusion effect, dark irradiance, and the dielectric constant, have been investigated through the theoretical analysis to determine which one dominates the temperature dependence of intensity profile and self-deflection of bright solitons. It is also found that the incident beam evolves into stable bright solitons in the vicinity of initial temperature, but oscillates or even collapses when the crystal temperature deviates significantly from the initial temperature.