This is a review of fiber-optic soliton propagation and of methods to determine the soliton content in a pulse, group of pulses or a similar structure. Of central importance is the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, an integrable equation that possesses soliton solutions, among others. Several extensions and generalizations of this equation are customary to better approximate real-world systems, b...

We derive a bound on the energy of the general (p,q)-supersymmetric two-dimensional massive sigma model with torsion, in terms of the topological and Noether charges that appear as central charges in its supersymmetry algebra. The bound is saturated by soliton solutions of first-order Bogomol'nyi-type equations. This generalizes results obtained previously for p = q models without torsion. We g...

Nonlinear evolution wave equations (NEEs) are partial differential equations (PDEs) involving first or second order derivatives with respect to time. Such equations have been intensively studied for the past few decades [1-3] and several new methods to solve nonlinear PDEs either numerically or analytically are now available. Hirota's bilinear method is a powerful tool for obtaining a wide clas...

An effective one-loop action built from the soliton field itself for the two-dimensional (2D) problem of soliton pair creation is proposed. The action consists of the usual mass term and a kinetic term in which the simple derivative of the soliton field is replaced by a covariant derivative. In this effective action the soliton charge is treated no longer as a topological charge but as a Noethe...

The effective dynamics of solitons for the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation in a random potential is rigorously studied. It is shown that when the external potential varies slowly in space compared to the size of the soliton, the dynamics of the center of the soliton is almost surely described by Hamilton’s equations for a classical particle in the random potential, plus error terms d...

In this diploma work we discuss a soliton in the context of quantum field theory. The model considered is the O(3) nonlinear σ-model in 3 dimensions with a symmetry breaking mass term. The stability properties of the circularly symmetric “hedgehog” soliton with topological number 1 is analyzed both classically and quantum mechanically. As far as classical field mechanics is concerned, a numeric...

The paper addresses a new “inverse” problem for reconstructing the amplitudes of 2D surface waves from observation of the wave patterns (formed by wave crests). These patterns will depend on the amplitudes because of nonlinear effects. We show that the inverse problem can be solved when the waves are modelled by an equation that supports soliton solutions. Specifically, the explicit solution to...

Using the Karpman-Solov'ev method we derive the equations for the two-soliton adiabatic interaction for solitons of the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation (MNSE). Then we generalize these equations to the case of N interacting solitons with almost equal velocities and widths. On the basis of this result we prove that the N MNSE-soliton train interaction (N>2) can be modeled by the complete...

A hierarchy of first-degree time-dependent symmetries is proposed for Dirac soliton hierarchy and their commutator relations with time-dependent symmetries are exhibited. Meantime, a hereditary structure of Dirac soliton hierarchy is elucidated and a Lax operator algebra associated with Virasoro symmetry algebra is given. The main purpose of the present letter is to construct a hierarchy of fir...

For a system of interacting fundamental and second harmonics the soliton family is characterized by two independent parameters, a soliton potential and a soliton velocity. It is shown that this system, in the general situation, is not Galilean invariant. As a result, the family of movable solitons cannot be obtained from the rest soliton solution by applying the corresponding Galilean transform...