Composite Multihump Vector Solitons Carrying Topological Charge

Ziad H. Musslimani; Mordechai Segev; Demetrios N. Christodoulides; Marin Soljačić

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1164

Composite Multihump Vector Solitons Carrying Topological Charge

Ziad H. Musslimani, Mordechai Segev, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1164 – Published 7 February 2000

Abstract

We propose composite solitons carrying topological charge: multicomponent two dimensional [ $(2 + 1) D$ ] vector (Manakov-like) solitons for which at least one component carries topological charge. These multimode solitons can have a single hump or exhibit a multihump structure. The “spin” carried by these multimode composite solitons suggests $3 D$ soliton interactions in which the particlelike behavior includes spin, in addition to effective mass, linear, and angular momenta.

Received 2 August 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1164

Authors & Affiliations

Ziad H. Musslimani¹, Mordechai Segev^2,3, Demetrios N. Christodoulides⁴, and Marin Soljačić⁵

¹Department of Mathematics, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, 32 000 Haifa, Israel
²Physics Department, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, 32 000 Haifa, Israel
³Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
⁴Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
⁵Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544