Route to Nonlocality and Observation of Accessible Solitons

2003/08/06 by Claudio Conti, Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto · 4 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Applied mathematics #Mathematics #Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Nonlinear medium #Nonlinear optics #Nonlinear system #Observability #Parametric statistics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum entanglement #Quantum mechanics #Quantum nonlocality #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #physics.optics

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.91.073901

4 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2003/08/06 · openalex publication_date 2003/08/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We develop a general theory of spatial solitons in a liquid crystalline medium exhibiting a nonlinearity with an arbitrary degree of effective nonlocality. The model accounts the observability of accessible solitons and establishes an important link with parametric solitons.

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