Suppression of transverse instabilities of dark solitons and their dispersive shock waves

Andrea Armaroli*, Stefano Trillo, Andrea Fratalocchi

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Abstract

We investigate the impact of nonlocality, owing to diffusive behavior, on transverse instabilities of a dark stripe propagating in a defocusing cubic medium. The nonlocal response turns out to have a strongly stabilizing effect both in the case of a single soliton input and in the regime where dispersive shock waves develop (multisoliton regime). Such conclusions are supported by the linear stability analysis and numerical simulation of the propagation. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume80
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 3 2009
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUK-F1-024-21
Acknowledgements: The authors acknowledge illuminating discussions with C. Conti. Research of A.F. was supported by Grant No. KUK-F1-024-21 (2009/2012) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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