Optical analogue of relativistic Dirac solitons in binary waveguide arrays

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2013.10.017zbMATH Open1348.81248arXiv1305.1055OpenAlexW3105916700MaRDI QIDQ339440FDOQ339440

Authors: Truong X. Tran, Stefano Longhi, Fabio Biancalana 

Publication date: 11 November 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study analytically and numerically an optical analogue of Dirac solitons in binary waveguide arrays in presence of Kerr nonlinearity. Pseudo-relativistic soliton solutions of the coupled-mode equations describing dynamics in the array are analytically derived. We demonstrate that with the found soliton solutions, the coupled mode equations can be converted into the nonlinear relativistic 1D Dirac equation. This paves the way for using binary waveguide arrays as a classical simulator of quantum nonlinear effects arising from the Dirac equation, something that is thought to be impossible to achieve in conventional (i.e. linear) quantum field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1305.1055

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zbMATH Keywords

Dirac equationbinary waveguide arrayDirac solitonKerr nonlinearityquantum nonlinear effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Soliton solutions (35C08) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantum dots, waveguides, ratchets, etc. (81Q37)

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