2003/01/23 by Lucian-Cornel Crasovan, Lucian‐Cornel Crasovan, Yaroslav V. Kartashov +12
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS) #Spectroscopy and Laser Applications #nlin.PS
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nlin/0301029
5 figures, 5 pages. Accepted for publication in Physical Review E
arxiv created 2003/01/23 · openalex publication_date 2003/01/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show how to generate robust self-sustained clusters of soliton bullets-spatiotemporal (optical or matter-wave) solitons. The clusters carry an orbital angular momentum being supported by competing nonlinearities. The "atoms" forming the "molecule" are fully three-dimensional solitons linked via a staircase-like macroscopic phase. Recent progress in generating atomic-molecular coherent mixing in Bose-Einstein condensates might open potential scenarios for the experimental generation of these soliton molecules with matter-waves.