Interactions of three-dimensional solitons in the cubic-quintic model

DOI10.1063/1.5034361zbMATH Open1394.35465arXiv1805.09173OpenAlexW2804935158WikidataQ89363216 ScholiaQ89363216MaRDI QIDQ4583564FDOQ4583564

Authors: Gennadiy Burlak, B. A. Malomed 

Publication date: 31 August 2018

Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We report results of a systematic numerical analysis of interactions between three-dimensional (3D) fundamental solitons, performed in the framework of the nonlinear Schr"{o}dinger equation (NLSE) with the cubic-quintic (CQ) nonlinearity, combining the self-focusing and defocusing terms. The 3D NLSE with the CQ terms may be realized in terms of spatiotemporal propagation of light in nonlinear optical media, and in Bose-Einstein condensates, provided that losses may be neglected. The first part of the work addresses interactions between identical fundamental solitons, with phase shift $\mathrm{\%}varphi$ between them, separated by a finite distance in the free space. The outcome strongly changes with the variation of $varphi$: in-phase solitons with $varphi=0$, or with sufficiently small $varphi$, merge into a single fundamental soliton, with weak residual oscillations in it (in contrast to the merger into a strongly oscillating breather, which is exhibited by the 1D version of the same setting), while the choice of $\mathrm{\%}varphi=pi$ leads to fast separation between mutually repelling solitons. At intermediate values of $varphi$, such as $varphi=pi/2$, the interaction is repulsive too, breaking the symmetry between the initially identical fundamental solitons, there appearing two solitons with different total energies (norms). The symmetry-breaking effect is qualitatively explained, similar to how it was done previously for 1D solitons. In the second part of the work, a pair of fundamental solitons trapped in a 2D potential is considered. It is demonstrated that they may form a slowly rotating robust extquotedblleft molecule", if aninitial kicks are applied to them in opposite directions, perpendicular to the line connecting their centers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09173

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55)

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