Scattering of slow-light gap solitons with charges in a two-level medium

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/5/055101zbMATH Open1167.78005OpenAlexW3102206926MaRDI QIDQ3603153FDOQ3603153

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Publication date: 16 February 2009

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Maxwell-Bloch system describes a quantum two-level medium interacting with a classical electromagnetic field by mediation of the the population density. This population density variation is a purely quantum effect which is actually at the very origin of nonlinearity. The resulting nonlinear coupling possesses particularly interesting consequences at the resonance (when the frequency of the excitation is close to the transition frequency of the two-level medium) as e.g. slow-light gap solitons that result from the nonlinear instability of the evanescent wave at the boundary. As nonlinearity couples the different polarizations of the electromagnetic field, the slow-light gap soliton is shown to experience effective scattering whith charges in the medium, allowing it for instance to be trapped or reflected. This scattering process is understood qualitatively as being governed by a nonlinear Schroedinger model in an external potential related to the charges (the electrostatic permanent background component of the field).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.4474

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zbMATH Keywords

polarizationMaxwell-Bloch equationsnonlinear Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Soliton equations (35Q51) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Asymptotic analysis in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M35)

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