Dispersive dam-break flow of a photon fluid

G Xu, M Conforti, A Kudlinski, A Mussot, S Trillo - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
We investigate the temporal photonic analogue of the dam-break phenomenon for shallow
water by exploiting a fiber optics setup. We clearly observe the decay of the steplike input …

Stability boundary and collisions of two-dimensional solitons in -symmetric couplers with the cubic-quintic nonlinearity

G Burlak, BA Malomed - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2013 - APS
We introduce one-and two-dimensional (1D and 2D) models of parity-time (PT)-symmetric
couplers with the mutually balanced linear gain and loss applied to the two cores and cubic …

Cubic-quintic condensate solitons in four-wave mixing

Z Wu, Y Zhang, C Yuan, F Wen, H Zheng, Y Zhang… - Physical Review A, 2013 - APS
We experimentally investigate the two-dimensional condensate (optical dropletlike) soliton
formation and dynamics of the generated signal and probe beams in four-wave mixing …

[HTML][HTML] Variational model for vortex quantum droplets

A Paredes, JR Salgueiro, H Michinel - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2024 - Elsevier
Quantum droplets represent a novel state of matter achieved by tailoring a binary Bose–
Einstein condensate, where the collapse driven by self-attraction is arrested by quantum …

[HTML][HTML] On vortex and dark solitons in the cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

A Paredes, JR Salgueiro, H Michinel - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2022 - Elsevier
We study topologically charged propagation-invariant eigenstates of the 1+ 2-dimensional
Schrödinger equation with a cubic (focusing)–quintic (defocusing) nonlinear term. First, we …

Self-trapping of vortex crystals via competing nonlinearities

A Paredes, H Michinel - Physical Review E, 2024 - APS
We investigate the existence of self-trapped nonlinear waves with multiple phase
singularities. Working with the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation, we focus on …

Coherent cavitation in the liquid of light

Á Paredes, D Feijoo, H Michinel - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We study the cubic-(focusing-) quintic (defocusing) nonlinear Schrödinger equation in two
transverse dimensions. We discuss a family of stationary traveling waves, including …

Generation of multiple solitons using competing nonlocal nonlinearities

CP Jisha, J Beeckman, F Van Acker, K Neyts, S Nolte… - Optics Letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We discuss the dynamics of fundamental Gaussian beams launched in saturable and
nonlocal nonlinear media. Solely in the presence of a self-focusing saturable nonlinearity …

QMBlender: Particle-based visualization of 3D quantum wave function dynamics

E Figueiras, D Olivieri, A Paredes, H Michinel - Journal of Computational …, 2019 - Elsevier
Simulated three-dimensional quantum wave functions (or probability density distributions, in
general), Ψ (x, t), are often represented graphically as smooth isocontours or with 2 …

Fermionic light in common optical media

D Novoa, H Michinel, D Tommasini - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
Recent experiments have proved that the response to short laser pulses of common optical
media, such as air or oxygen, can be described by focusing Kerr and higher order …