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We present an analysis of modulational instability of diffractionless waves in a face-centered square lattice of waveguides featuring non-Kerr nonlinearity, which are constituted by a combination of positive and negative refractive indices. The unit cell of the lattice consists of three different waveguides with different optical properties. The dispersion curve of the lattice supports flat bands and thereby the base equations describing the model have particular solutions that correspond to the diffractionless waves propagating along the waveguides. We also observe a unique ramification of nonlinearities in controlling the flat bands optically. The diffractionless wave solutions are derived and the stability of these distributions are investigated in a nutshell by adopting the standard linear stability approach., Comment: Accepted for Publication in Phys. Rev. A

We study modulation instability (MI) of flat states in two-component spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in the framework of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations for two components of the pseudospinor wave function. The analysis is performed for equal densities of the components. Effects of the interaction parameters, Rabi coupling, and SOC on the MI are investigated. In particular, the results demonstrate that the SOC strongly alters the commonly known MI (immiscibility) condition, $g_{12} > g_{1} g_{2}$, for the binary superfluid with coefficients $g_{1,2}$ and $g_{12}$ of the intra- and interspecies repulsive interactions. In fact, the binary BEC is always subject to the MI under the action of the SOC, which implies that the ground state of the system is plausibly represented by a striped phase.

We obtain general continuous-wave (CW)\ solutions in the model of a spinor positronium condensate in the absence of magnetic field. The CW solutions with both in-phase ($n=0$) and out-of-phase ($n=1$) spin components exist, with their ranges limited by the total particle density, $\rho $. In the limit of negligible population exchange between the spin components, the CW solutions are found to be stable or unstable, depending on the particle density of the para positronium. Ortho positronium, in the $F=1$ spinor state, forms a ferromagnetic condensate with stable in-phase CW solutions only. Subsequent examination of the modulational instability (MI) is carried out both in the limit case of identical wavenumbers in the spin components, $% \Delta k\equiv k_{1}-k_{-1}=0$, and in the more general case of $\Delta k\neq 0$ too. The CW solutions with $n=0$ and $1$ solutions, which are stable in the case of $\Delta k=0$, are unstable for $\Delta k\neq 0$, for the natural repulsive sign of the nonlinearities. The total particle density, $\rho $, in the limit of $\Delta k=0$ is found to have a significant role for the stability of the condensate, which is determined by the sign of the self-interaction nonlinearity.

Analyzing a Gross-Pitaevskii equation with cubic, quartic, and quintic nonlinearities through analytical and numerical methods, we examine the stability of two-dimensional (2D) trapless Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with two-, three-body interactions and quantum fluctuations. Applying a variational approach, we derive the equation of motion and effective potential to discuss in detail the stability of the BECs in 2D free space. We show that with the aid of quantum fluctuations it is possible to stabilize 2D trapless BEC without any oscillatory nonlinearities. Also, there is an enhancement of the stability of the system, due to the inclusion of the three-body interaction and quantum fluctuations in addition to the two-body interaction. We further study the stability of 2D trapless BECs with rapid periodic temporal modulation of scattering length by using a Feshbach resonance. We discuss all possible ways of stabilization of trapless BECs in 2D by three-body interaction and quantum fluctuations. Finally, we verify our analytical results with numerical simulation using split-step Crank-Nicholson method. These match well with the analytical predictions.

By solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation analytically and numerically, we reexamine the implosion phenomena that occur beyond the critical value of the number of atoms of an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with cigar-shape trapping geometry. We theoretically calculate the critical number of atoms in the condensate by using Ritz's variational optimization technique and investigate the stability and collapse dynamics of the attractive BEC by numerically solving the time dependent Gross-Pitavskii equation.

We report a novel optical multistability in two core oppositely directed saturable coupler (ODSC) with negative index material (NIM) channel. The dynamics are studied using the Langrangian variational method and Jacobi elliptic functions are used to construct the analytical solutions. The ODSC exhibits a bandgap as a consequence of the effective feedback mechanism due to the opposite directionality of the phase velocity and Poynting vector in the NIM channel. We observe that the system admits multiple stable states for some control parameter, which is a result of the combination of nonlinear saturation and the unique backward-coupling mechanism in the NIM channel. The number of multiple stable states increase with the strength of the nonlinear saturation. Taking the advantage of multiple stable states, one can construct ultrafast switching devices with a flexible switching operation. The studies on the transmission characteristics of the ODSC implies the existence of multiple transmission resonance windows, which could help in the realization of gap soliton in homogeneous systems like coupler. With more degrees of design freedom and controllability, the ODSC could be the choice for a future generation of all-optical switching., Comment: 9 Pages, 8 Figures

We present the study of the dark soliton dynamics in an inhomogenous fiber by means of a variable coefficient modified nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (Vc-MNLSE) with distributed dispersion, self-phase modulation, self-steepening and linear gain/loss. The ultrashort dark soliton pulse evolution and interaction is studied by using the Hirota bilinear (HB) method. In particular, we give much insight into the effect of self-steepening (SS) on the dark soliton dynamics. The study reveals a shock wave formation, as a major effect of SS. Numerically, we study the dark soliton propagation in the continuous wave background, and the stability of the soliton solution is tested in the presence of photon noise. The elastic collision behaviors of the dark solitons are discussed by the asymptotic analysis. On the other hand, considering the nonlinear tunneling of dark soliton through barrier/well, we find that the tunneling of the dark soliton depends on the height of the barrier and the amplitude of the soliton. The intensity of the tunneling soliton either forms a peak or valley and retains its shape after the tunneling. For the case of exponential background, the soliton tends to compress after tunneling through the barrier/well., Comment: 11 pages, 12 figures

We consider a two-level atomic system, interacting with an electromagnetic field controlled in amplitude and frequency by a high intensity laser. We show that the amplitude of the induced electric field, admits an envelope profile corresponding to a breather soliton. We demonstrate that this soliton can propagate with any frequency shift with respect to that of the control laser, except a critical frequency, at which the system undergoes a structural discontinuity that transforms the breather in a rogue wave. A mechanism of generation of rogue waves by means of an intense laser field is thus revealed., Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of modulation instability (MI) in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). The analysis is performed for equal densities of pseudo-spin components. Different combination of the signs of intra- and inter-component interaction strengths are considered, with a particular emphasize on repulsive interactions. We observe that the unstable modulation builds from originally miscible condensates, depending on the combination of the signs of the intra- and inter-component interaction strengths. The repulsive intra- and inter-component interactions admit instability and the MI immiscibility condition is no longer significant. Influence of interaction parameters such as spin-orbit and Rabi coupling on MI are also investigated. The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) inevitably contributes to instability regardless of the nature of the interaction. In the case of attractive interaction, SOC manifest in enhancing the MI. Thus, a comprehensive study of MI in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled binary BECs of pseudo-spin components is presented., Comment: 11 pages, 17 figures, 1 table

We investigate a generalized coupled nonlinear Schrodinger (GCNLS) equation containing Self-Phase Modulation (SPM), Cross-Phase Modulation (XPM) and Four Wave Mixing (FWM) describing the propagation of electromagnetic radiation through an optical fibre and generate the associated Lax-pair. We then construct bright solitons employing gauge transformation approach. The collisional dynamics of bright solitons indicates that it is not only possible to manipulate intensity (energy) between the two modes (optical beams), but also within a given mode unlike the Manakov model which does not have the same freedom. The freedom to manipulate intensity (energy) in a given mode or between two modes arises due to a suitable combination of SPM, XPM and FWM.While SPM and XPM are controlled by an arbitrary real parameter each, FWM is governed by two arbitrary complex parameters. The above model may have wider ramifications in nonlinear optics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs)., Comment: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, In Press

We study the vortex lattice dynamics in presence of single impurity as well as random impurities or disorder. We show that in presence of a single impurity the vortex lattice gets distorted and the distortion depends on the position of the single impurity with respect to the positions of the vortices in the impurity free Abrikosov vortex lattice and also the strength of the impurity potential. We then show that a new type of giant hole with hidden vortices inside it can be created in the vortex lattice by a cluster of impurities. In presence of random impurity potential or disorder the vortex lattice melts. We show that the vortex lattice also melts in presence of pseudorandom potential generated by the superposition of two optical lattices. The absence of long-range order in the melted vortex lattice is demonstrated from the structure factor profile and the histogram of the distances between each pair of the vortices., Comment: Accepted in Phys. Rev. A

The localization characters of the first-order rogue wave (RW) solution $u$ of the Kundu-Eckhaus equation is studied in this paper. We discover a full process of the evolution for the contour line with height $c^2+d$ along the orthogonal direction of the ($t,x$)-plane for a first-order RW $|u|^2$: A point at height $9c^2$ generates a convex curve for $3c^2\leq d<8c^2$, whereas it becomes a concave curve for $0

We harness the freedom in the celebrated gauge transformation approach to generate dark solitons of coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) type equations. The new approach which is purely algebraic could prove to be very useful, particularly in the construction of vector dark solitons in the fields of nonlinear optics, plasma physics and Bose-Einstein condensates. We have employed this algebraic method to coupled Gross- Pitaevskii (GP) and NLS equations and obtained dark solitons., Comment: 11 pages, 12 figures. To appear in Romanian Reports in Physics

We study the vortex dynamics and vortex pinning effect in Bose-Einstein condensate in a rotating double-well trap potential and co-rotating optical lattice. We show that, in agreement with the experiment, the vortex number do not diverge when the rotational frequency $\Omega \rightarrow 1$ if the trap potential is of anisotropic double-well type. The critical rotational frequency as obtained from numerical simulations agrees very well with the value $\sqrt l/l$ for $l=4$ which supports the conjecture that surface modes with angular momentum $l=4$ are excited when the rotating condensate is trapped in double-well potential. The vortex lattice structure in a rotating triple-well trap potential and its pinning shows very interesting features. We show the existence and pinning of a new type of hidden vortices whose phase profile is similar to that of the visible vortices., Comment: 4 pages, 7 figures

In this paper, we consider the complex modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation as a model of few-cycle optical pulses. Using the Lax pair, we construct a generalized Darboux transformation and systematically generate the first-, second- and third-order rogue wave solutions and analyze the nature of evolution of higher-order rogue waves in detail. Based on detailed numerical and analytical investigations, we classify the higher-order rogue waves with respect to their intrinsic structure, namely, fundamental pattern, triangular pattern, and ring pattern. We also present several new patterns of the rogue wave according to the standard and non-standard decomposition. The results of this paper explain the generalization of higher-order rogue waves in terms of rational solutions. We apply the contour line method to obtain the analytical formulas of the length and width of the first-order RW of the complex mKdV and the NLS equations. In nonlinear optics, the higher-order rogue wave solutions found here will be very useful to generate high-power few-cycle optical pulses which will be applicable in the area of ultra-short pulse technology., Comment: 31 pages, 22 figures, accepted by Phys.Rev.E

We study the stabilization of a trapless Bose-Einstein condensate by analysing the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation with attractive two- and three-body interactions through both analytical and numerical methods. Using the variational method we show that there is an enhancement of the condensate stability due to the inclusion of a three-body interaction in addition to the two-body interaction. We also study the stability of the condensates in the presence of the time-varying three-body interaction. Finally we confirm the stabilization of a trapless condensate from numerical simulation.

We investigate the dynamical instability of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with higher-order interactions immersed in an optical lattice with weak driving harmonic potential. For this, we compute both analytically and numerically a modified Gross-Pitaevskii equation with higher-order nonlinearity and external potentials generated by magnetic and optical fields. Using the time-dependent variational approach, we derive the ordinary differential equations for the time evolution of the amplitude and phase of modulational perturbation. Through an effective potential, we obtain the modulational instability condition of BECs and discuss the effect of the higher-order interaction in the dynamics of the condensates in presence of optical potential. We perform direct numerical simulations to support our analytical results, and good agreement is found.

We introduce a new integrable model to investigate the dynamics of two component quasi particle condensates with spatio temporal interaction strengths. We derive the associated Lax-pair of the coupled GP equation and construct matter wave solitons. We show that the spatio temporal binary interaction strengths not only facilitate the stabilization of the condensates, but also enables one to fabricate condensates with desirable densities, geometries and properties leading to the so called "designer quasi particle condensates"., Comment: Accepted for Publication in Chinese Physics B

Using Gauge transformation method, we generate rogue waves for the two component Bose Einstein Condensates (BECs) governed by the symmetric coupled Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations and study their dynamics. We also suggest a mechanism to tame the rogue waves either by manipulating the scattering length through Feshbach resonance or the trapping frequency, a new phenomenon not witnessed in the domain of BEC, we believe that these results may have wider ramifications in the management of rogons., Comment: Accepted for Publication in Physical Rev E

We revisit the collisional dynamics of bright solitons in the coupled Nonlinear Schrodinger equation. We observe that apart from the intensity redistribution in the interaction of bright solitons, one also witnesses a rotation of the trajectories of bright solitons . The angle of rotation can be varied by suitably manipulating the Self-Phase Modulation (SPM) or Cross Phase Modulation (XPM) parameters.The rotation of the trajectories of the bright solitons arises due to the excess energy that is injected into the dynamical system through SPM or XPM. This extra energy not only contributes to the rotation of the trajectories, but also to the realignment of intensity distribution between the two modes. We also notice that the angular separation between the bright solitons can also manouvred suitably. The above results which exclude quantum superposition for the field vectors may have wider ramifications in nonlinear optics, Bose-Einstein condensates, Left Handed (LH) and Right Handed (RH) meta materials., Comment: Accepted for Publication in Physical Rev E

In this paper, using the Darboux transformation, we demonstrate the generation of first order breather and higher-order rogue waves from a generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with several higher-order nonlinear effects representing femtosecond pulse propagation through nonlinear silica fiber. The same nonlinear evolution equation can also describes the soliton-type nonlinear excitations in classical Heisenberg spin chain. Such solutions have a parameter $\gamma_1$, denoting the strength of the higher-order effects. From the numerical plots of the rational solutions, the compression effects of the breather and rogue waves produced by $\gamma_1$ are discussed in detail., Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures. Several wrong values of $gamma_1$ are corrected

We analytically solved the higher-order nonlinear Schrodinger (HNLS) equation with non-Kerr nonlinearity under some parametric conditions and investigated explicitly bright and dark solitary wave solutions. Periodic wave solutions are also presented. The functional form of the bright and dark solitons presented are different from fundamental known sech(.) and tanh(.) respectively. We have estimated theoretically the size of the derivative non-Kerr nonlinear coefficients of the HNLS equation that agreed the reality of the waveguide made of highly nonlinear optical materials, could be used as the model parameters for sub-10fs pulse propagation., Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures

We introduce a mechanism for generating higher order rogue waves (HRWs) of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger(NLS) equation: the progressive fusion and fission of $n$ degenerate breathers associated with a critical eigenvalue $\lambda_0$, creates an order $n$ HRW. By adjusting the relative phase of the breathers at the interacting area, it is possible to obtain different types of HRWs. The value $\lambda_0$ is a zero point of the eigenfunction of the Lax pair of the NLS equation and it corresponds to the limit of the period of the breather tending to infinity. By employing this mechanism we prove two conjectures regarding the total number of peaks, as well as a decomposition rule in the circular pattern of an order $n$ HRW., Comment: 12 pages, 13 figures, To appear in Phys.Rev.E

We find a matter-wave solution of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a harmonic-oscillator potential and subjected to a homogeneous gravitational field, by means of the extended tanhfunction method. This solution has as special cases the bright and dark solitons. We investigate the dynamics and the kinematics of these solutions, and the role of gravity is sketched. It is shown that these solutions can be generated and manipulated by controlling the s-wave scattering length, without changing the strengths of the magnetic and gravitational fields., Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, submitted to PRA

In this paper, we derive a Darboux transformation of the Hirota and the Maxwell-Bloch(H-MB) system which is governed by femtosecond pulse propagation through an erbium doped fibre and further generalize it to the matrix form of the $n$-fold Darboux transformation of this system. This $n$-fold Darboux transformation implies the determinant representation of $n$-th new solutions of $(E^{[n]},p^{[n]}, \eta^{[n]})$ generated from known solution of $(E, p,\eta)$. The determinant representation of $(E^{[n]},p^{[n]} ,\eta^{[n]})$ provides soliton solutions, positon solutions, and breather solutions (both bright and dark breathers) of the H-MB system. From the breather solutions, we also construct bright and dark rogue wave solutions for the H-MB system, which is currently one of the hottest topics in mathematics and physics. Surprisingly, the rogue wave solution for $p\, and\, \eta$ has two peaks because of the order of the numerator and denominator of them. Meanwhile, after fixing time and spatial parameters and changing other two unknown parameters $\alpha$ and $\beta$, we generate a rogue wave shape for the first time., Comment: 17 pages

Modulational instability in a photorefractive medium is studied in the presence of two wave mixing. We then propose and derive a model for forward four wave mixing in the photorefractive medium and investigate the modulational instability induced by four wave mixing effects. By using the standard linear stability analysis the instability gain is obtained. In both the cases, the geometry is such that the effect of self-phase-modulation self-focusing is suppressed and only the holographic focusing nonlinearity is acting., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, to be submitted to Journal of Optics A : Pure and Applied Optics