Nonlinear Waves and Patterns in Optics, Quantum Matter, and Elsewhere
A special issue of Physics (ISSN 2624-8174). This special issue belongs to the section "Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 40
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical solitons and their applications in photonics and optical communications; dynamical instabilities, solitons and vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates
Interests: subwavelength optics; wave scattering in discrete and continuous media (including photonic crystals and light scattering by nanoparticles); pattern formation and the transition to turbulence in nonequilibrium systems
Interests: soliton; nonlinear optics; nonlinear dynamics; optical frequency comb; precision measurement
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Waves and patterns supported by the interplay of linear and nonlinear effects are a ubiquitous subject of experimental and theoretical studies in many areas of physics and applied mathematics. The present Festschrift aims to put together a set of original and review articles representing many facets of this vast research area. Natural topics include optics and photonics in conservative and dissipative media (one- and multidimensional), Bose-Einstein condensates and other forms of quantum matter, dynamical lattices, hydrodynamics, plasmas, magnetics, and others. Also included may be related topics from applied mathematics, dealing with the development of analytical and numerical methods necessary for the study of the integrable and non-integrable nonlinear physical systems. Subjects presented in the articles may be bright and dark solitons, kinks, shock and rogue waves, vortices and complex topological modes (such as skyrmions, hopfions, and edge modes), their bound states (“soliton molecules”), periodic and disordered waves and patterns (stationary and nonstationary ones), and phase transitions (such as symmetry breaking) in continuous and discrete settings, including nonlinear states in dissipative media. The collection may include fully original works and newly presented summaries of results recently reported by authors. Both brief and full-length contributions are acceptable.
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis
Prof. Dr. Michael Tribelsky
Dr. Yudong Cui
Prof. Dr. Qin Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solitons
- kinks
- shock waves
- rogue waves
- vortices
- skyrmions
- hopfions
- soliton molecules
- wavetrains
- integrability
- optical fibers
- photonics
- Bose-Einstein condensates
- lattice dynamics
- dissipative solitons
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